91
votes
Accepted
How much time is remaining?
Excel, 6 Bytes
=B1-A1
Assuming A is in cell A1 and B is in cell B1
- 11.7k
82
votes
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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- 7,457
62
votes
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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58
votes
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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55
votes
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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44
votes
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 ...
- 210k
42
votes
41
votes
Accepted
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, ...
- 21.4k
41
votes
41
votes
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 ...
- 20k
40
votes
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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40
votes
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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39
votes
I'm too cold, turn up the temperature
Bash + linux utilities, 19
seq 40 2 72|pv -qlL2
seq generates the numerical output. pv ...
- 71.8k
37
votes
36
votes
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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31
votes
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).
- 1,345
30
votes
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 ...
- 751
29
votes
28
votes
Accepted
Output each second
MacOS shell, 3
top
On the Mac, top's default refresh period is 1 sec.
Linux shell, 7
...
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27
votes
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.
...
- 2,554
27
votes
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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27
votes
27
votes
Accepted
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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26
votes
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 ...
- 2,272
26
votes
Accepted
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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24
votes
24
votes
Encode the date in Christmas Eve format
Excel formula, 59 bytes
="Christmas"&REPT(" Eve",DATE(YEAR(NOW()+6),12,25)-TODAY())
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23
votes
Sleep for 1000 years
Ruby, 10 bytes
sleep 3e10
Try it online!
There are approximately \$3*10^{10}\$ seconds in a thousand years.
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22
votes
Accepted
The symmetry of months
JavaScript (ES6), 55 bytes
Saved 6 bytes thanks to @Neil
Takes input in currying syntax (year)(month). Returns false for ...
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