Count Down Clocks... and flash

So I start this post with a winge about flash. Why is it that when you use a date object, the years are 1 based, the days are 1 based, hours, minutes, seconds all normal - but the months are indexed 0 - 11. It just seems stupid. So

new Date(2005,1,26,0,0,0,0) 

means the 26th Jan, 2006. Hmmph.
Ignoring Flash's stupid design, I have invented a countdown clock for PY's summer camp. It's available online at the summer camp website in the promo section. It's cool. Stupid and geeky, but cool.