Manpage of CAL

CAL

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NAME

cal - displays a calendar

SYNOPSIS

cal [-mjy13 ] [[ month ] year ]

DESCRIPTION

Cal displays a simple calendar. If arguments are not specified, the current month is displayed. The options are as follows:

-1: Display single month output (use if cal was built with -3 as default to get older traditional output)
-3: Display prev/current/next month output (use if cal was built with traditional -1 as default to get newer improved output)
-m: Display Monday as the first day of the week. (The default is Sunday.)
-j: Display Julian dates (days one-based, numbered from January 1).
-y: Display a calendar for the current year.

A single parameter specifies the year (1 - 9999) to be displayed; note the year must be fully specified: ``cal 89 '' will not display a calendar for 1989. Two parameters denote the month (1 - 12) and year. If no parameters are specified, the current month's calendar is displayed.

A year starts on Jan 1.

The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September. By this time, most countries had recognized the reformation (although a few did not recognize it until the early 1900's.) Ten days following that date were eliminated by the reformation, so the calendar for that month is a bit unusual.

HISTORY

A cal command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

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