Tom Hayward

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Tue Feb 3

I made you a 1234567890 countdown timer

Unix time will reach 1234567890 on 2009-02-13 15:31:30. I made a countdown timer in bash. 

#!/bin/sh
printf "\tUNIX TIME\t TO GO:\tDAYS\tHOURS\tMINUTES\tSECONDS\n"
while true;
	DATE=`date +%s`
	SECONDS=$[1234567890-$DATE]
	MINUTES=$[$SECONDS/60]
	HOURS=$[$MINUTES/60]
	DAYS=$[$HOURS/24]
	printf "\t%s\t\t%4s\t%5s\t%7s\t%7s\r" "$DATE"	"$DAYS" "$[$HOURS%$DAYS]" "$[$MINUTES%$HOURS]" "$[$SECONDS%$MINUTES]"
	sleep 1
done