Happy 2014!

happy2014.sh

#!/bin/bash

formatted_time() {
  local total_seconds=${1}
  ((hours=total_seconds/3600))
  ((minutes=total_seconds%3600/60))
  ((seconds=total_seconds%60))
  printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n" $hours $minutes $seconds
}

clear
endsec=`date -j -f '%d %b %Y %T' "1 Jan 2014 00:00:00" +%s`
nowsec=`date +%s`
difsec=$((endsec-nowsec))
while [ $difsec -gt 0 ]
do
  tput cup 0 0
  echo -n "It's 2014 in: "
  formatted_time "$difsec"
  sleep 1
  nowsec=`date +%s`
  difsec=$((endsec-nowsec))
done
echo 'Happy 2014!'