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Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: cntdwn Version number: v.3 Author's name: D. P. Story Summary description: Provides support for short and long countdowns, and for clocks in any time zone License type: lppl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The cntdwn package provides three sets of timers:

1. A short countdown (or count up) to an event. (Short being defined as less than a day.) The short countdown is designed for talks or presentations. There are three notification times, to announce to the speaker and audience that time is running out. 2. A long countdown to an event in the (distant) future. There are three notifications up to the main event (when counter reaches 0 seconds), and three notifications following 0 seconds. 3. Clock counters. The cntdwn package allows you to create a clocks that display time and date. Clocks can show local time or time in any foreign time zone. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cntdwn . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cntdwn (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .