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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:07:42 JST kaia
   if you enter `cal jan 25` you get the calendar for the year 25 of our Lord.
   
   follow for more useless Linux tips!
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:11:29 JST 翠星石

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     @kaia cal --version
     cal from util-linux 2.40.2
     
     Hmm.
     
     For me it's; `gcal Jan 25`
     
     As after all; `gcal --version`
     gcal (GNU cal) 4.1
     Copyright (c) 1994, 95, 96, 1997, 2000 Thomas Esken
     Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
     There is NO warranty, without even the implied warranty of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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     Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:12:26 JST Peter N. M. Hansteen

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     @kaia Same with BSD date (confirmed just now on #openbsd)

     [Mon Dec 30 13:08:45] peter@skapet:~$ cal jan 25
     January 25
     Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
     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

     [Mon Dec 30 13:08:50] peter@skapet:~$

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:13:26 JST kaia

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     @Suiseiseki I don't understand your post
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:21:13 JST 翠星石

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     @kaia When it comes to most utilities, referring to them with "Linux" is totally incorrect, but in this one case, the software is from util-linux, which is one set of utilities that depend on GNU software that are actually by some of the Linux developers.
     
     There is also the fine GNU version of cal; gcal.
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     Daniela Pagenstecher 🚴‍♂️📚🦏 (daniel_pagenstecher@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:22:43 JST Daniela Pagenstecher 🚴‍♂️📚🦏

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     @kaia Well, this seems not to work on MacOS Unix terminal which provides for this input an obscure and wrong calendar (which is also NOT the calendar of 1925, I checked this).
     Just "cal jan 2025" does the correct job.
     Useless but funny. Thanks.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:32:47 JST kaia

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     @Suiseiseki
     so you do the whole GNU spiel to find out it's not GNU software, gotcha. please don't do this on my posts, thanks.
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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:40:54 JST Tim Chase

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     • Peter N. M. Hansteen

     @kaia @pitrh
     For the weirdest one

     $ cal 9 1752

     It's when various calendars synced up, snipping several days from the calendar

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:44:40 JST 翠星石

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     @kaia The thing is, it is GNU;
     * dependency graph for sys-apps/util-linux-2.40.1-r3
     sys-libs/ncurses
     sys-libs/readline
     sys-devel/gettext
     sys-devel/gnuconfig
     dev-build/automake
     dev-build/autoconf
     dev-build/libtool