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How much time is remaining?

Excel, 6 Bytes =B1-A1 Assuming A is in cell A1 and B is in cell B1
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Sleep for 1000 years

C (gcc), 40 36 32 29 26 24 bytes i;f(){--i&&f(sleep(7));} Try it online! -3 thanks to @gastropner. -1 recursive approach thanks to @AZTECCO. ...
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Increment The Time

Microsoft Excel, 9 bytes =A1+"0:1" Input is in cell A1. Tested on my Mac (Excel for Mac version 16.53) and online at ...
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Output the Current Time

Minecraft 1.8.7, 7 + 8 = 15 blytes (bytes + blocks) Only one command block involved: xp 1 @p Output goes to the client console like so: As part of the normal output. This is the system: ...
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Encode the date in Christmas Eve format

SmileBASIC, 73 71 67 bytes ?"Christmas"; @L?" Eve"*(D!=P); P=D DTREAD OUT,M,D IF M/D-.48GOTO@L The program prints "Christmas", then ...
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Sort the months of the year

Jelly, 19 bytes 11ị“bMAanlseovc”iµÞ This is a monadic link that takes a list as argument and sorts it. Try it online! Background Jelly uses modular, 1-based ...
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100 Day Countdown

Excel, 10 =NOW()+100 Demonstration
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When is Thanksgiving?

TI-BASIC, 15 bytes * 0.75 = 11.25 Tested on my TI-84+ calculator 1129-dayOfWk(Ans+ᴇ4,9,1 Thankgiving is November 29, minus the day of the week of September 1st, ...
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Type the Alphabet - as fast as you can!

HTML (JavaScript (ES6)), 129 126 117 bytes ...
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Sleep for 1000 years

Python 3 (Excluding CPython on Windows), 28 bytes import time time.sleep(3e10) Try it online! (Remember to put something in your will so future generations can ...
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I'm too cold, turn up the temperature

Minecraft 1.9.0+, 204 162 bytes + 58 36 28 24 20 blocks = 262 240 232 186 182 blytes This solution is golfed down, and it can't be seen whole in one, or even two screenshots. Uses two glitches and ...
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Setting the time

HTML on Google Chrome 67 in Chinese (Simplified), 39 bytes <input type=time value=00:00 autofocus> Chrome show different UI component in different ...
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I'm too cold, turn up the temperature

Bash + linux utilities, 19 seq 40 2 72|pv -qlL2 seq generates the numerical output. pv ...
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Stop, stand there where you are!

x86_64 machine code, 10 bytes Hexdump of the code: 48 69 c9 ca fc 59 38 e2 fe c3 Source code (can be assembled by ml64 of ...
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Type the Alphabet - as fast as you can!

6502 machine code (C64 PAL), 189 165 bytes ...
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How many days in a month?

JavaScript (ES6),  48 47 44 43  42 bytes m=>31^'311'[parseInt(m[1]+m[2],34)*3%49%8] Demo ...
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Leap for Leap Seconds!

R, 78 75 bytes Built-ins, you say? Well... message(paste(as.Date(.leap.seconds)-1,"23:59:60\n"),"2015-06-30 23:59:60") R has an automatic variable ...
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Advance Happy New Year, 2016!

Mathematica, 45 37 27 24 bytes #+5[6,6,11][[#~Mod~4]]& Improvements thanks to @MartinBüttner (10 bytes), and @ChipHurst (a further 3 bytes).
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Implement a Simple Stopwatch

Operation Flashpoint scripting language,  174  171 bytes ...
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Automate Saving the World

MUMPS - 30 characters, circa 1966 (ANSI standard first in 1977) My first attempt at code golf, here we go! f w "4 8 15 16 23 42" h 6420 MUMPS is still a ...
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Sleep for 1000 years

bash, 26 24 bytes I think part of the challenge here is to not have a signed 32 bit overflow, so: ping -i86400 -c365243 t.co The idea here is to make 1000 years of ...
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Legen… wait for it…

JavaScript (ES6), 74 bytes You may want to change your system clock before testing, congratulations if you landed here at 59 minutes past. ...
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We had a question once which only failed on Sundays

Bash + coreutils, 15 14 bytes `date|grep Su` Try it online!
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Who was president of the USA?

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Convert YYYYMM to MMMYY

Python 3, 70 bytes from time import* lambda s:strftime("%b%y",strptime(s,"%Y%m")).upper() This uses the built-in strftime and ...
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Days in indexed month

APL (Dyalog Unicode), 13 12 bytesSBCS Anonymous tacit prefix function. 0-indexed. February is 29. 31-1∘=+2|7∘| Try it online! ...
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Sleep for 1000 years

MATL, 6 5 bytes 35WY. This waits for 34359738368 seconds, which is a little more than 1089 years and a half. Don't try it online! Explanation ...
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Leap for Leap Seconds!

CJam, 72 70 69 64 bytes 26,"~g¼K&Béx¸¦­Ø"240bFbf{<1b2md\1972+'-@6X$4*-'-Z3$" 23:59:60"N} Try it online in the CJam interpreter. Idea We start by ...
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Leap for Leap Seconds!

HTML, 594 bytes ...
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