[Gllug] Tomorrow

[Tom Gilbert]

* Chris Ball (chris at void.printf.net) wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Hearns <john.hearns at framestore-cfc.com> writes:
> 
>     John> Steve Goodwin pointed this one out to me.  Tomorrow is the
>     John> 20th of February, 2002!  So where are you going to be at 2
>     John> minutes past eight in the evening?
> 
> Asleep, if my current sleeping pattern persists.   ;-)
> 
>     John> 20:02 20/02 2002
>     John> ps. are there any good countdown clocks to use on a PC?
> 
> Not that I know of; try this, though.  It's un{scoped,strict}, but that
> shouldn't matter:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> #Print now/then/difference on a cleared screen, every second.
> do {
>         system('clear'); # clear the screen
>         $target = '1014235320'; # 20:02 20/02 2002
>         $now = time();
>         print "Time now: " . scalar localtime($now) . "\n";
>         print "Time then: " . scalar localtime($target) . "\n";
>         print "Seconds remaining: " . ($target - $now) . "\n";
>         sleep(1);
> } while ($target > $now);
> # -- end

Or:
watch -n 1 'expr 1014235320 - `date -u +%s` | figlet'

Tom.
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