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	BluesLee	2011-09-04 , 09:24
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Originally Posted by ejasmudar

I want to make a QBW that will show the no of days remaining to a particular day. Can somebody please show me how we can make a bash/python script that will output, say for example "56 days remaining"?

Something like that?

Code:

echo "$(( ($(date -d "110923" +%s) - $(date +%s)) / 86400 )) days remaining"

p.s. 1. 110923=particular day X=23rd September of 2011 in my case
2. "date +%s" gives you the seconds since unix epoch, i.e. since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
3. 86400 secs a day = 60 secs * 60 min * 24 hours

Last edited by BluesLee; 2011-09-04 at 09:52.

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