Okay, so I got really hyped for Genshin Impact 4.7, like seriously counting the days. I kept checking online forums and stuff, but I wanted something more, like, right there, telling me exactly how long was left. Just seeing a date wasn’t enough for me.
First, I thought maybe there’s an app or a website that does exactly this. Found a few, yeah, but I dunno, I kinda felt like making my own little thing. Nothing fancy, just a simple counter ticking away. Felt more personal, you know? Like my own little hype machine.
So, I decided to build a super simple webpage. Didn’t need anything complicated. Just plain old HTML and a sprinkle of JavaScript. Stuff I already kinda knew how to mess with.
Figuring Out the Date
The first real step was pinning down the actual release date and time. I remember looking through the official announcements and some reliable fan wikis. Had to double-check because time zones are always a mess. I eventually settled on the date and time based on the usual update schedule for my server region. Let’s say it was June 5th, at the usual server reset time.
Putting It Together
Alright, then I opened up my basic text editor. Started with a simple HTML file. Just needed a place to show the numbers.
Then came the slightly trickier part – the JavaScript. Here’s roughly what I did:
- Get the target date: I created a date object for that June 5th time I found earlier. This was the finish line.
- Get the current date: Needed the script to know what time it is right now. JavaScript has a simple way to do this.
- Calculate the difference: Simple subtraction, really. Target date minus current date gives you the total time remaining, usually in milliseconds.
- Convert milliseconds: Milliseconds aren’t very human-friendly for a countdown. So, I did the math to convert that big number into days, hours, minutes, and seconds. You know, divide by 1000 for seconds, then 60 for minutes, 60 for hours, 24 for days. Had to use the modulo operator (%) quite a bit here to get the remainders right.
- Display it: Used JavaScript to grab an element on my HTML page (just a simple paragraph tag `
`) and stuffed the calculated days, hours, minutes, and seconds into it. Used `` tags to make the numbers pop a bit.
- Make it tick: A countdown isn’t much good if it doesn’t update. So I wrapped the whole calculation and display logic in a function and used `setInterval` to run that function every second (1000 milliseconds). That makes the seconds tick down nicely.
Testing and Seeing it Work
Saved the file and opened it in my browser. And boom, there it was! My own Genshin 4.7 countdown. It showed something like “XX days, YY hours, ZZ minutes, WW seconds”.
I watched it for a few minutes just to make sure the seconds were ticking down correctly and the minutes changed over when they hit zero. Seemed to work fine. It wasn’t pretty, just black text on a white background, but it did exactly what I wanted.
It felt pretty satisfying, honestly. Just this simple little script I threw together, tracking the time until the next big update for a game I love. Kept it open in a browser tab for days, just glancing at it now and then. It’s basic, yeah, but it was my little project, and it worked. That’s the good stuff.
