The site isitfriday.net provided an essential service: answering the question “is it Friday today?”.
Apparently it wasn’t deemed essential enough, cause the service no longer exists.
David has stepped up to the breach with http://isitfriday.gnapp.org/. Here’s my contribution:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $wday = (gmtime( time ))[6];
my $msg = 'no';
if ( $wday == 5 ) {
$msg = b( 'YES!' );
}
print header;
print start_html( 'Is it Friday?' );
print h1({-style=>"text-align: center"}, $msg );
print hr;
You can see it in action here.
N.B. this script is not tested for days other than Friday. Also, your timezone will have to be in the general vicinity of UTC for it to work for you.