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Due Date: 4 pm Friday October 07, 2011
Create an application that asks the user for their complete birth date, down to the second, and computes when the user will be 1 billion (1,000,000,000) seconds old. The result should be displayed to the user.
Request input using the console. Ask for the year, month, day, hour, minute and second. (The user should be asked to enter an integer value for each of these properties of their birth date.)
To keep things simple, assume that each of the 12 months has exactly 30 days and that there are no leap years.
Display the result to the user in the console. Display the date when the user turns 1 billion seconds in the following format: yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss
This is an individual assignment and all work that you submit must be your own work. You are encouraged to discuss this assignment with other students in the course, but do not share code, do not ask other students to look at the code you have created for the assignment, nor look at the code that other students have created for the assignment. When you discuss your work or problems you encounter, make sure you do not take code, pseudo code or other written work.
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