Y2K Countdown

Here, we're going to return a number of days until a specified event, in this case: January 1, 2000. With all the hulabaloo about Y2K compliance, we'll add in a jab at the PC camp by returning a different message about Y2k depending on the platform the request is coming from. How fun...

Name: Doomsday Clock

SSI: Y2KCLOCK

func(nullvar) begin //easily change the target date //by altering this string local thedate:= "January 1, 2000"; local leftstr; local ldays; //Get # minutes from thedate till now, //divide by 60 minutes per hour //divided by 24 hours per day then round down. ldays:= Floor(StringToDate(thedate) - time())/60/24); //Browsers usually transmit some platform info //after their browser agent data. We'll look //for 'Mac' in the text of the user-agent field. if StrPos("HTTP_USER_AGENT", "Mac", 0) then leftstr:= "'till D-day"; else leftstr:= "to buy yourself a Macintosh!"; //Roll values together and return! return ldays && "days left" && leftstr; end