Problem 42353. Can't wait for NewYear ball drop !
Given an input string of the form 'yyyy-mm-dd' or 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss', return a string message indicating how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left to the NewYear ball drop. Examples:
Input = '2014-05-26 10:15:45'; Output = '219 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes, 15 seconds to go.'
Input = '2014-12-31 10:15:45';; Output = '000 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes, 15 seconds to go.'
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