The utility checks the current directory or the directory specified by the CALENDAR_DIR environment variable for a file 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 options are as follows:

-a

Process the files of all users and mail the results to them. This requires superuser privileges.

-A num

Print lines from today and next num days. Defaults to one.

-b

Enforce special date calculation mode for KOI8 calendars.

-B num

Print lines from today and previous num days. Defaults to zero.

-f calendarfile

Use calendarfile as the default calendar file.

-l num

Print lines from today and next num days. Defaults to one.

-w num

Print lines from today and next num days, only if today is Friday. Defaults to two, which causes calendar to print entries through the weekend on Fridays.

Xo -t

dd [. mm [. year]] Act like the specified value is instead of using the current date.

To handle calendars in your national code table you can specify in the calendar file as early as possible. To handle national Easter names in the calendars, (for Catholic Easter) or (for Orthodox Easter) can be used.

A special locale name exists: Specifying indicates that the dates will be read using the C locale, and the descriptions will be encoded in UTF-8. This is usually used for the distributed calendar files.

To enforce special date calculation mode for Cyrillic calendars you should specify and where <local_name> can be ru_RU.KOI8-R, uk_UA.KOI8-U or by_BY.KOI8-B.

Note that the locale is reset to the user's default for each new file that is read. This is so that locales from one file do not accidentally carry over into another file.

Other lines should begin with a month and day. They may be entered in almost any format, either numeric or as character strings. If proper locale is set, national months and weekdays names can be used. 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. (may be followed by a positive or negative integer) is Easter for this year. (may be followed by a positive or negative integer) is Orthodox Easter for this year. Weekdays may be followed by ... (aliases last, first, second, third, fourth) for moving events like

By convention, dates followed by an asterisk are not fixed, i.e., change from year to year.

Day descriptions start after the first <tab> character in the line; if the line does not contain a <tab> character, it isn't printed out. If the first character in the line is a <tab> character, it is treated as the continuation of the previous description.

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() searches in the current (or home) directory first, and then in the directory /etc/calendar , and finally in /usr/share/calendar . Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax are ignored.

Some possible calendar entries (<tab> characters are highlighted by a \t sequence): LANG=C Easter=Ostern

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

6/15\tJune 15 (if ambiguous, will default to month/day). Jun. 15\tJune 15. 15 June\tJune 15. Thursday\tEvery Thursday. June\tEvery June 1st. 15 *\t15th of every month.

May Sun+2\tsecond Sunday in May (Muttertag) 04/SunLast\tlast Sunday in April, \tsummer time in Europe Easter\tEaster Ostern-2\tGood Friday (2 days before Easter) Paskha\tOrthodox Easter

calendar

file to read calendar data from

~/.calendar

directory in the user's home directory (which changes into if calendar does not exist in the current directory)

~/.calendar/calendar

file to use if no calendar file exists in the current directory

~/.calendar/nomail

will not send mail if this file exists

calendar.birthday

births and deaths of famous (and not-so-famous) people

calendar.christian

Christian holidays (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.fictional

Fantasy and Fiction dates (mostly LOTR)

calendar.history

everything else, mostly U.S. historical events

calendar.holiday

other holidays (including the not-well-known, obscure, and obscure)

calendar.judaic

Jewish holidays (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.openbsd

related events

calendar.pagan

Pagan holidays, celebrations and festivals

calendar.usholiday

U.S. holidays

calendar.world

World wide calendar

calendar.croatian

Croatian calendar

calendar.german

German calendar

calendar.russian

Russian calendar

The 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 at the beginning of a line.

The command will only display lines that use a <tab> character to separate the date and description, or that begin with a <tab>. This is different than in previous releases.

The -t flag argument syntax is from the original FreeBSD program.

The -l and -w flags are Debian-specific enhancements. Also, the original program did not accept 0 as an argument to the -A flag.

Using as a locale name is a Debian-specific enhancement.

A command appeared in

doesn't handle Jewish holidays or moon phases. The -A and -l flags do the same thing.