>>>In Edward's example, you might want to consider to use the 4 character year to be Y2K.
>>>? date()-ctod("01/01/"+str(year(date()))
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>>This is what I did. :)
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>But this solution is wrong by one day! - my diary says today is the 106th day of the year - not the 105th :-)

It depends on what are you usually doing January 1 :)