celebrate.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# celebrate.pl:
#     Perl code to calculate the Gregorian date of 'fx6'.
#
# Author: Joel Franusic
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

use strict;
use POSIX;

my $kDateFormat = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S';
my $kMask = 0xffffff;
my $time = time();
my $next_event = $time | $kMask;

my $num_dates = 10;

for (my $n = 0; $n < $num_dates; $n++) {
  my $future_event = $next_event + $n + ($kMask * $n);
  print sprintf("%s\n", strftime($kDateFormat, localtime($future_event)));
}