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Manpages CALENDARSection: User Commands (1)Index Return to Main Contents BSD mandoc NAMEcalendar - reminder serviceSYNOPSIS[-a ] [-A num ] [-B num ] [-f calendarfile ] [-t dd Sm off [. mm [. year ] ] Sm on ] [-l days ] [-w days ]DESCRIPTIONCalendar checks the current directory for a file named calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's date or tomorrow's. On Fridays, events on Friday through Monday are displayed. If there is no configuration file in the current directory, /etc/calendar/default is used (if present).The following options are available:
To handle calendars in your national code table you can specify ``LANG=<locale_name>'' in the calendar file as early as possible. To handle national Easter names in the calendars ``Easter=<national_name>'' (for Catholic Easter) or ``Paskha=<national_name>'' (for Orthodox Easter) can be used. Other lines should begin with a month and day. They may be entered in almost any format, either numeric or as character strings. If the proper locale is set, national month and weekday names can be used. A single asterisk (``*'') matches every month. A day without a month matches that day of every week. A month without a day matches the first of that month. Two numbers default to the month followed by the day. Lines with leading tabs default to the last entered date, allowing multiple line specifications for a single date. ``Easter'', is Easter for this year, and may be followed by a positive or negative integer. ``Paskha'', is Orthodox Easter for this year, and may be followed by a positive or negative integer. Weekdays may be followed by ``-4'' ... ``+5'' (aliases for last, first, second, third, fourth) for moving events like ``the last Monday in April'' By convention, dates followed by an asterisk are not fixed, i.e., change from year to year. Day descriptions start after the first <tab> character in the line; if the line does not contain a <tab> character, it is not displayed. If the first character in the line is a <tab> character, it is treated as a continuation of the previous line. The ``calendar'' file is preprocessed by cpp(1), allowing the inclusion of shared files such as lists of company holidays or meetings. If the shared file is not referenced by a full pathname, cpp(1) searches in the current (or home) directory first, and then in the directory /etc/calendar/<yearnum> then in /etc/calendar then in /usr/share/calendar/<yearnum> and finally in /usr/share/calendar Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax (/* ... */ ) are ignored. Some possible calendar entries (<tab> characters highlighted by \t sequence) LANG=C Easter=Ostern #include <calendar.usholiday> #include <calendar.birthday> 6/15\tJune 15 (if ambiguous, will default to month/day). Jun. 15\tJune 15. 15 June\tJune 15. Thursday\tEvery Thursday. June\tEvery June 1st. 15 *\t15th of every month. May Sun+2\tsecond Sunday in May (Muttertag) 04/SunLast\tlast Sunday in April, \tsummer time in Europe Easter\tEaster Ostern-2\tGood Friday (2 days before Easter) Paskha\tOrthodox Easter FILES
The following default calendar files are provided:
SEE ALSOat(1), cpp(1), mail(1), cron(8)COMPATIBILITYThe program previously selected lines which had the correct date anywhere in the line. This is no longer true, the date is only recognized when it occurs at the beginning of a line.Having a directory per year is a Debian-specific improvement over the standard BSD calendar. Older calendar releases distributed with Debian supported the -t option which has been superseded by the -A and -B options and the ~/.calendar file which has been superseded by the ~/.calendar directory. HISTORYA command appeared in At v7 .BUGSCalendar doesn't handle Jewish holidays and moon phases. The -A and -l options do very similar things.
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