Start and end dates

So, I'm going to start this tomorrow. That's March 6th 2009. According to Date and Time the end date is Friday, 2nd December 2011. Seems like a long way off.

I've put a countdown timer in the panel on the right. It currently tells me I have 1001 days plus a handful of hours left, but that's because I'm on day 0. That seems somewhat less, somehow. 2011, that's years away. 1001 days doesn't seem like all that long at all.

Right, let's get this ball rolling.