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Problem 42353. Can't wait for NewYear ball drop !

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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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31.82% Correct | 68.18% Incorrect
Last Solution submitted on Feb 28, 2022

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