Doh!!! Story of my life .... a day late and a dollar short. I knew something wasn't right, it's that add 1 to $mon, but not to $mday gotch!! Arghh. It was last night. Anyways, this does show the difference in Perl/Tk and Perl/Gtk2 programming.

This is just a dumb and easy script, to help you easily partake in the great 1111111111 celebration this evening ( at around 8:58:30 Eastern Daylight Savings Time (by my calculations....I may be wrong :=0)). I wouldn't have thought of it, except for 1111111111 , followed by a post on the Gtk2-Perl maillist, about a Gtk2 countdown timer. So I figured Tk, may as well throw it's code into the celebration. I was going to add a warning beeper, 15 seconds before the fireworks, but I figure that would be too annoying. The Gtk2 code is also shown below for comparison.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Tk;

my $mw = new MainWindow;

$mw->fontCreate('big',
   -family=>'Arial',
  -weight=>'bold',
  -size=>int(-24*24/14));

my $ctime = time;

my $lab = $mw->Label(
            -background => 'lightgreen',
            -font =>'big',
            -textvariable=> \$ctime)->pack();

$mw->repeat(500, sub{ $ctime = time });

MainLoop;
__END__

#Gtk2 version by McLean of the gtk2-perl maillist
######################################################
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Gtk2 -init;
use Glib qw(TRUE FALSE);

my $window = Gtk2::Window->new;
$window->signal_connect(delete_event => sub { Gtk2->main_quit; });

my $label = Gtk2::Label->new('' . time());
my $font = Gtk2::Pango::FontDescription->from_string("Sans Bold 48");
$label->modify_font($font);

Glib::Timeout->add(250, sub { $label->set_text('' . time()); TRUE; });

$window->add($label);

$window->show_all;

Gtk2->main;
__END__

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