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Command line utility to find number of days to a date. #go #cli #ideabin
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Command line utility to find number of days to a date.md

Examples:

days -m | -y                # Print number of days left in the month/year

days "Aug 31"               # This year

days "Aug 31, 2016"         # Exact date

days "31/08/2019"           # Alternate date format

Prior Art

The dateutils package (github) contains almost everything that can be done with dates. Too bad, it's *nix only.

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