Countdown timer

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ImaginaryHuman
 #1
Surely all you need to do is very simply:

1) Store the current Millisecs/1000 into a StartTime variable when you start the countdown

2) Calculate TimeElapsed=(Millisecs/1000)-StartTime

3) Calculate countdown with SecondsToWait-TimeElapsed