CALENDAR

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NAME

calendar - reminder service

SYNOPSIS

calendar [-a ]

DESCRIPTION

Calendar checks the current directory for a file named named calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's date or tomorrow's. On Fridays, events on Friday through Monday are displayed.

The following options are available:

-a: Process the ``calendar'' files of all users and mail the results to them. This requires super-user privileges.

A month and day should begin lines. They may be entered in almost any format, either numeric or as character strings. A single asterisk (``*'') matches every month. A day without a month matches that day of every week. A month without a day matches the first of that month. Two numbers default to the month followed by the day. Lines with leading tabs default to the last entered date, allowing multiple line specifications for a single date. By convention, dates followed by an asterisk are not fixed, i.e. change from year to year.

The ``calendar'' file is preprocessed by cpp(1), allowing the inclusion of shared files such as company holidays or meetings. If the shared file is not referenced by a full pathname, cpp(1) searches in the current (or home) directory first, and then in the directory /usr/share/calendar Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax (/* ... */ ) are ignored.

Some possible calendar entries:

#include        <calendar.usholiday>
#include        <calendar.birthday>

6/15            ... June 15 (if ambiguous, will default to month/day).
Jun. 15 ... June 15.
15 June ... June 15.
Thursday        ... Every Thursday.
June            ... Every June 1st.
15 *            ... 15th of every month.

FILES

The following default calendar files are provided:

calendar.birthday: Births and deaths of famous (and not-so-famous) people.
calendar.christian: Christian holidays. This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administrator so that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year.
calendar.computer: Days of special significance to computer people.
calendar.history: Everything else, mostly U. S. historical events.
calendar.holiday: Other holidays, including the not-well-known, obscure, and really obscure.
calendar.judaic: Jewish holidays. This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administrator so that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year.
calendar.music: Musical events, births, and deaths. Strongly oriented toward rock 'n' roll.
calendar.usholiday: U.S. holidays. This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administrator so that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year.

COMPATIBILITY

The calendar program previously selected lines which had the correct date anywhere in the line. This is no longer true, the date is only recognized when it occurs first on the line.

HISTORY

A calendar command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

BUGS

Calendar doesn't handle events that move around from year to year, i.e. ``the last Monday in April''.

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