On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 08:25:42AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The entry in that file probably should read:
>
> 01/MonThird Martin Luther King Birthday (3rd Monday of January)
unicorn:/usr/share/calendar$ grep Luther *
calendar.birthday:01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929
calend
deloptes writes:
> And if you look into the file, you see it has no years associated with the
> date, so it doesn't matter when it was written unless there was a change
> in
> the official holidays in the US.
Correct. I see two types of date references, exact dates
such as Christmas and
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 07:16:25AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I am presently running
>
> Debian GNU/Linux 10 as in Buster.
Buster was released in the summer of 2019, so it's not totally
unreasonable for one of its packages to have been last updated in 2017.
Especially if there weren't any c
Greg Wooledge writes:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 09:58:11PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > There's a stale version of this file on my system that reflects
> > when Debian was installed but it brings a question to mind.
>
> The one in the Subject: header? Are you sure that's the correct
> path
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> I'd imagine it's used by the "calendar" program in the calendar package.
> The string "calendar.usholiday" appears in the calendar(1) man page, in
> an example, as well as in the FILES section.
And if you look into the file, you see it has no years associated with the
date,
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 09:58:11PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> There's a stale version of this file on my system that reflects
> when Debian was installed but it brings a question to mind.
The one in the Subject: header? Are you sure that's the correct
path for this file?
On Debian 11, I ha
There's a stale version of this file on my system that reflects
when Debian was installed but it brings a question to mind.
Does this file simply cause messages to appear on an
event calendar or can it be used along with crontab in some way
to either cause or prevent cron jobs from running
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