Thank you Michael, you are correct. I misread the meaning of the
documentation. I believe the English is correct, but not natural. I claim
it can therefore mislead someone with English as a first language.
I suggest the following minor documentation change to make it more natural,
and clearer:
If
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:57:33PM +0200, peej wrote:
> cal -m 9
> shows September, as expected
>
> cal -m 9p
> should show August.
I wouldn't be quite so sure. The manpage says:
If month is specified as a decimal number, it may be followed by the letter ‘f’
or ‘p’ to indicate the following or p
Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 9.0.3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
cal -m 9
shows September, as expected
cal -m 9p
should show August.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_6
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