Days left until 2004 (New Year's):
22 years and 99 days ago

Time remaining until December 2005 (years, days, hours):
20 years, 129 days, and 7 hours ago

Years remaining until August 14, 2012:
14 years ago

Time left until 4am on New Year's Eve 2008 (years, days, hours, minutes):
17 years, 98 days, 3 hours, and 19 minutes ago

Time since Vietnam was unified [how script handles a point in the past] (years, days):
49 years and 289 days ago

Countdown to January 4, 2022 at 11:30pm and 43 seconds (years, days, hours, minutes, seconds):
4 years, 90 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes, and 11 seconds ago

Countdown to October 31, 2010 at 12:01am (years, days, hours):
15 years, 159 days, and 7 hours ago