Days left until 2004 (New Year's):
17 years and 33 days ago

Time remaining until December 2005 (years, days, hours):
15 years, 62 days, and 15 hours ago

Years remaining until August 14, 2012:
8 years ago

Time left until 4am on New Year's Eve 2008 (years, days, hours, minutes):
12 years, 31 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes ago

Time since Vietnam was unified [how script handles a point in the past] (years, days):
44 years and 223 days ago

Countdown to January 4, 2022 at 11:30pm and 43 seconds (years, days, hours, minutes, seconds):
341 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes, and 49 seconds

Countdown to October 31, 2010 at 12:01am (years, days, hours):
10 years, 92 days, and 15 hours ago