Merge pull request #180 from Abirami-S21/timer

initial commit timer

Python/Countdowntimer/Readme-countdowntimer.md

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+# Description:
+    This is the python program for a countdowntimer. The user can enter any future date and the countdown begins.

Python/Countdowntimer/countdown timer program.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# coding: utf-8
+
+# In[12]:
+
+
+import time   
+import datetime
+
+
+# Get the input in dd/mm/year format
+print('Enter the date in dd mm year as space separated integers')
+[dd,mm,year]=list(map(int,input().split()))
+
+#Get today's date using datetime module
+today=datetime.datetime.now().date()
+
+#convert the date as date/month/year format
+today_date = today.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
+[ddtoday,mmtoday,yeartoday]=list(map(int,today_date.split('/')))
+
+# Get the time object from datetime module
+now = datetime.datetime.now().time() 
+
+#convert the time as hour/minute/second format
+now_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
+[hr,mins,sec]=list(map(int,now_time.split(':')))
+
+#Using timedelta to get the difference between two dates
+given_date = datetime.datetime(year,mm,dd,00,00,00) 
+today_date = datetime.datetime(yeartoday,mmtoday,ddtoday,hr,mins,sec) 
+diff = given_date-today_date
+
+
+#From the output of timedelta function, calculate the remaining number of days, hours, minutes and seconds
+diff_string=str(diff)
+[a,b]=diff_string.split(',')
+dayss=int(a.split(' ')[0])
+[h,m,s]=list(map(int,b.split(':')))
+
+#If any of the values is negative, that means user entered a past date which is not valid for a countdowntimer
+if (dayss<0) or (h<0) or (m<0) or (s<0):
+    print('The given date is not a valid date')
+
+#If all the values are positive, the timer can run  
+else:
+
+    #Calculate the total number of seconds 
+    total=(dayss*24*60*60)+diff.seconds 
+
+    #the timer has to run until the total no. of seconds become zero
+    #Interrupt the kernel to stop the timer in between
+    while total:
+
+        #calculate the no. of seconds, minutes, hours,days using the total no. of seconds
+        mz,sz=divmod(total,60)   
+        hz,mz=divmod(mz,60)
+        dz,hz=divmod(hz,24)
+
+        #Display the timer in the days, hours, minutes,seconds format
+        timer = '{:02d} days :{:02d} hours :{:02d} minutes : {:02d} seconds'.format(dz,hz,mz,sz) 
+
+        print(timer, end="\r") 
+
+        #Pause the timer for 1 second
+        time.sleep(1)
+
+        #Decrement the total number of seconds by 1
+        total=total-1