Package: ccal
Version: 4.0-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
After installing ccal I created events in ~/.cal.dat including entries for
first and third Thursday of every month.
I created a calendar data file ~/.cal.dat and added the following lines to it.
-999 -9 00 15 First Thursday of every month
-999 -9 00 35 Third Thursday of every month
-999 -9 00 -7 Weekly reminder on Saturday
Then I executed the command
roger@RDGdebian880:~$ ccal --noc
Which displayed the following:
December 2016 1: First Thursday of every month
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 10: Weekly reminder on Saturday
1 2 3 15: Third Thursday of every month
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 17: Weekly reminder on Saturday
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 24: Weekly reminder on Saturday
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 *31: Weekly reminder on Saturday
25 26 27 28 29 30<31>
I expected to see an entry
3: Weekly reminder on Saturday
which did not display.
To check the results I tried
roger@RDGdebian880:~$ ccal --noc --con=1
Which resulted in
December 2016 1: First Thursday of every month
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 10: Weekly reminder on Saturday
1 2 3 15: Third Thursday of every month
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 17: Weekly reminder on Saturday
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 24: Weekly reminder on Saturday
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 *31: Weekly reminder on Saturday
25 26 27 28 29 30<31>
January 2017 14: Weekly reminder on Saturday
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 19: Third Thursday of every month
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 21: Weekly reminder on Saturday
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 28: Weekly reminder on Saturday
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
Here I noticed that the December entry
3: Weekly reminder on Saturday
is still missing, also the following are missing in January
5: First Thursday of every month
7: Weekly reminder on Saturday
To confirm that I'm not trying to display more data than the program expects, I
added the --f flag
December displayed only the *31: entry (as expected) and January displayed
exactly the same as without the --f flag.
I was hoping that ccal data would be easier to maintain and more useful than
other options for quickly displaying reminders, but will not be using it unless
the bug which prevents the first week data from displaying correctly is fixed.
It does look like it could be useful, and like it's handling of birthdays and
anniversaries, but floating appointments need to work correctly for it to be
useful to me.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages ccal depends on:
ii dpkg 1.17.27
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6
ccal recommends no packages.
ccal suggests no packages.
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