creating tickers? how to implement?

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jmut
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creating tickers? how to implement?

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I wonder how these images are made
http://lilypie.com/

The idea of the thing:

you create a ticker of your choice. The lilypie.com provides you with html snippet you can use somewhere.


Questions that bothers me?

1. how they manage to change the period on the image...Do they separate the image on sections based on how much is left and calclulating offset or something?
2. I assume this image is updated with cronjob each night..only the content is different...?
3. how do they know in which timezone is the image used to update accordingly. last night I tried like at 00.03h and the image was updated with correct text and image on remaining time.
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