For calendar oddities try typing the following into a BASH terminal : cal 9 1752
The seemingly odd result will be correct for what is now Halifax, Nova Scotia, but incorrect for what is now Quebec City, Quebec. Anyone know why? :-) Colin McGregor On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 4:30 PM mwilson--- via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Discovered when I ran my script to run pcal and refresh my next-month > calendar, and got March. > > > mwilson@ningabel:~$ date > Tue 30 Jan 2024 04:23:27 PM EST > mwilson@ningabel:~$ date -d'this month' +%m > 01 > mwilson@ningabel:~$ date -d'next month' +%m > 03 > mwilson@ningabel:~$ which date > /usr/bin/date > mwilson@ningabel:~$ date --version > date (GNU coreutils) 9.1 > Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > Written by David MacKenzie. > mwilson@ningabel:~$ > > > Running Debian 12.2.0-14 patched up to last Friday. I suppose that in a > couple of days next month really will be March, and the bug will be gone. > > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
