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<SCRIPT language=»JavaScript«>
<!--
// This JavaScript takes today's conventional (Gregorian) date from the client
// system and displays the corresponding date from the Discordian Calendar as
// given on Page 0034 of Principia Discordia. Coded by JohnDouglas WaySide, KSC,
// of the JAH Cabal on 14-15 Aftermath, AM 3163. Revised 48 Aftermath, AM 3163.
// Permission granted to all Discordians and their ilk to use freely in
// propagating the Faith. Hail Eris!
// Note that the »Julian date« generated for dates after the last day of February
// in a leap year will be »short« by a day -- and won't be generated at all for
// February 29th itself (St. Tibb's Day in the Discordian calendar).
// Copyfree <X>1997-98 non sequitur productions / ErisX Web Design Collective.
// http://erisx.com -- »The Web HER Way«
// Mama made me do it. Honest.
function showDiscordianDate() {
var julian, i, disDate, disDay, disMonth, disYear;
currentDate = new Date();
var today = currentDate.getDate();
var currentMonth = currentDate.getMonth();
var currentYear = currentDate.getYear();
var extraDays = new Array(0,3,0,3,2,3,2,3,3,2,3,2);
var dDays = new Array(»Sweetmorn«,»Boomtime«,»Pungenday«,»Prickle-Prickle«,»Setting Orange«);
var dMonths = new Array(»Chaos«,»Discord«,»Confusion«,»Bureaucracy«,»Aftermath«);
document.writeln(»<DIV ALIGN='center'><STRONG>Today\'s Day and Date in the Discordian Calendar:</STRONG></DIV>«);
document.writeln(»<BR> «);
if((currentMonth==1)&&(today==29)) {
document.writeln(»<DIV ALIGN='center'> Today is St. Tibb\'s Day -- Many Happy Returns!</DIV>«);
}
else {
julian = currentMonth * 28;
for(i=0; i<=currentMonth; i++) {
julian+= extraDays[i];
}
julian+= today;
disDay = (julian - 1) % 5;
disDate = julian % 73;
disMonth = Math.floor(julian/73);
disYear = currentYear+3066;
document.writeln(»<DIV ALIGN='center'><BIG>«+dDays[disDay]+», Day «+disDate
+» of the Season of «+dMonths[disMonth]+», Anno Mung «+disYear+».</BIG></DIV>«);
}
}
// -->
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