The countdown script was written for the counter script on www.kluge.net. The script generates the time until the next specified event (in the configuration file). The script requires the Date::Manip library, see CPAN if you don't already have it installed.

The script and configuration file is really easy if you know Perl -- there is no man page information for it yet (next version). If you would like a copy of countdown, you can get it via one of the two following methods:

  1. HTTP - http://www.kluge.net/ftp/pub/felicity/countdown-1_6.tar.gz
  2. FTP - ftp://ftp.kluge.net/pub/felicity/countdown-1_6.tar.gz

History

1.6 (1999/02/01)
Revamped the code to be more efficient. Decided to add tables/colors to countdown and countdown list in HTML mode.
1.0-1.5 (1998/11/24)
Initial release (used on the kluge.net countdown page, but not released.)