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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Shopping Reminder for /bin/login
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Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 22:28:02 EST
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> The following is a code fragment which I installed into the login program
> at mitccc, which is also suitable for independant use.  The day after
> Thanksgiving, it starts announcing how many shopping days are left until
> Christmas :-).  (Note that it assumes that ALL days are shopping days, which
> in Massachussetts only recently became true...)
> 
If you have the PWB or SYSTEM III/V date program you can just stick
this in your profile and not bother with modifying login.

	echo Only `expr 359 - \`date +%j\`` days until Christmas!

Not quite as fancy, but adequate.

-Ron