I re-thought the idea I had about having a control panel option to display the next upcoming event on the forum summary. You must admit the desire for sites who really use the calendar to have some sort of buit-in countdown option. I came up with a better way to implement it. Let's see if you like this better.
It would start with an additional option for each event that you could set. Just a checkbox labelled 'countdown?' next to 'yearly?' You might even add an admin requirement for this option.
Then, on the forum summary display, you could search for all future events with the countdown flag and display them first on a separate line with a note about how many days are left. Then display the current day's events normally on another line.
This seems to be a simple change for great functionality. You might have to convert the current events again to include the new flag, but that should be all the hard work.
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