<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="java script">

<!--

  function birthday(year,month,date,person) {

    this.year=year

    this.month=month

    this.date=date

    this.person=person

  }

  function birthdaylist() {

  }

  blist=new birthdaylist()

  blist[0]= new birthday(84,1,16,"Matthew")

  blist[1]= new birthday(53,1,27,"Brenda")

  blist[2]= new birthday(82,3,1,"Ray")

  blist[3]= new birthday(88,4,27,"Michael")

  blist[4]= new birthday(86,9,2,"Andrew")

  blist[5]= new birthday(49,11,24,"Raymond")

  var now=new Date()

  today=new Date(now.getYear(),now.getMonth(),now.getDate())   // today 0:00:00

  function daysFromToday(sdate) {

    return Math.round((sdate.getTime()-today.getTime())/(24*60*60*1000))

  }

  function writeNextBirthday(list) {

    var daysToClosest=888

    var closest

    for (var i in list) {

      thisDate=new Date(today.getYear(),list[i].month,list[i].date)

      if (daysFromToday(thisDate)<0)

        thisDate.setYear(today.getYear()+1)

      if (daysFromToday(thisDate)<daysToClosest) {

        daysToClosest=daysFromToday(thisDate)

        closest=i

      }

    }

    if (daysToClosest==0)

      document.write("<B>So today "+list[closest].person+" became "+(today.getYear()-list[closest].year)+" years old !! Hoorah!</B><P>")

    else if (daysToClosest==1)

      document.write("So tomorrow "+list[closest].person+" will become "+(today.getYear()-list[closest].year)+" !<P>")

    else

      document.write("So the next birthday will be "+list[closest].person+"'s, in "+daysToClosest+" days.<P>")

  }

// end hiding -->

</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="java script">

<!-- 

  writeNextBirthday(blist)

// -->

</SCRIPT>