[MLUG - DISCUSSION] countdown to election day (using GNU commands)

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Vern Green wrote:

> Oh, I misunderstood you Mike, the way you wrote it made it sound like 
> you were counting the days until the election was to take place in eager 
> anticipation.

No, that wasn't it, but I didn't explain it at all!


> Enough to know exactly how many days it is, of course if you also listed 
> hour, minute and second, I would have had to make a call to the people 
> with the white jackets with long arms... For your protection of course.

Here you go:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/cgi-bin/election

Let's make it open source so that anyone can critique my code.  There are 
probably much better ways to do this, and it's tcsh (old habit -- I'm 
moving everything to bash now)....


-----------------begin script on next line------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/tcsh -f

set time1=`date +%s`
set time2=`date -d 'Nov 4 20:00:00 PST 2008' +%s`
set seconds=`echo $time2 $time1 | gawk '{print $1-$2}'`
set days=`echo $seconds | gawk '{print int($1/(24*60*60))}'`
set hrs=`echo $seconds $days | gawk '{print int($1/(60*60))-$2*24}'`
set mins=`echo $seconds $days $hrs | gawk '{print int($1/60)-$2*24*60-$3*60}'`
set secs=`echo $seconds $days $hrs $mins | gawk '{print $1-$2*24*60*60-$3*60*60-$4*60}'`

echo ''
echo Only ${days} days, $hrs hours, $mins minutes and $secs seconds until
echo the polls close on Election Day 2008\!\!
-----------------end script on previous line----------------------


Mike

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