https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1000751 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-side-scripting/weekly-countdown-it-possible-have-variable-end-date#comment-1003257 <p>I have a site dedicated to a certain TV show, which airs weekly at 10pm every friday on CBS. I want to write up a script that will display a countdown until the next episode, and I'm not sure how to tackle it. Does something like this exist yet?</p> <p>Here's what I'm thinking... First I'd need some type of formula to calculate when it's friday in the numerical sense. After I found the first friday in a year, and if I knew the number of days in each month, then it should be simple to know that for example the 7th, 14th, and 21st are fridays... but I'm not sure. That's one of the things I'm having trouble with, aswell as how to import the date into perl (newbie question) is it just an environmental var? If so, what's it's name? I'm kinda new to PERL, I mainly do C(++) and Pascal, but this seems similar... any help would be greatly apprecaited!</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>----------<br /> -Blur<br /> Proudly Canadian</p> Sun, 22 Aug 1999 02:47:00 +0000 Blur comment 1003257 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net