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 <talk@gtalug.org> 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.
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