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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:31:42PM +0100, Yann Chachkoff wrote:
> Previously, the "cal" command allowed to select the first day of the week
> displayed through the -s and -m options.
Not exactly:
-s country_code
Assume the switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar at the date
associated with the country_code. If not specified, ncal tries to guess the
switch date from
the local environment or falls back to September 2, 1752. This was
when Great Britain and her colonies switched to the Gregorian Calendar.
> Those options are not available anymore. This change seems to be in
> contradiction with what the man page says:
-s never has been an option for cal, only for ncal. Now -m is a different
story. I have no idea when and how -m was introduced into the Debian package,
but it definitely never was part of our upstream sources. Please keep in mind
that we build bsdmainutils by using FreeBSD sources.
> "The output of the cal command is supposed to be bit for bit compatible to
> the original Unix cal command,
> because its output is processed by other programs like CGI scripts, that
> should not be broken."
AFAICT the original cal command didn't have a -m option either. OpenBSD has the
"-m" option and correctly lists it as an extension.
> There seems to be no other way to select the first day of the week being
> displayed. Changing LANG may have other
> side effects, like changing the name of the days displayed, hence making it
> an unsuitable work-around.
> I suppose that this can hence be considered as a functional regression.
Yes, you can consider this a regression because the feature is missing.
However, there simply is no way to re-add "-m" is it was before, because
FreeBSD uses "-m" for a different option. The only possibility I see is adding
a new
and differently named option for specifying the first day of the week. Is this
what you want? Or do you see any other possibility?
Michael
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