Also note that when using ``cal -r'' it still displays 5 lines of
output, even though only 3 (or 4) lines contain any day-numbers.
This results in somewhat excessive vertical white-spacing.
:)
# cal -r
September 1752
S M Tu W Th F S
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
# cal
June 2020
S M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
#
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Valery Ushakov wrote:
Michael Siegel <m...@malbolge.net> wrote:
So, in the output of NetBSD's cal(1), days are abbreviated with one
letter, except for Tuesday and Thursday.
I'd say this is:
* inconsistent
* potentially misleading (Saturday and Sunday are both just "S".)
* unnecessarily cryptic
[...]
So, I'd say that, maybe, changing cal(1) in NetBSD to use two-letter
abbreviations throughout as well would also be a good thing concerning
compatibility with what other (widely-used) Unix-like operating systems do.
No objections, but just for context/perspective/pedantry/... :)
2.11 BSD UNIX #1: Fri Jun 9 08:42:54 PDT 1995
root@SSU-64EN137:/usr/src/sys/SYSTEM
[...]
erase, kill ^U, intr ^C
# cal
usage: cal [month] year
# cal 1 72
January 72
S M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
#
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