Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 11.1.2+b1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/ncal
Dear Maintainer,
I was interested in [n]cal's behaviour around the Gregorian adoption
dates and noticed that ncal -b defaults to October 1582 regardless of
locale or -s specified country code, whereas plain "cal" uses the locale
correctly.
There follows an example shell session. Use of the "env" command is to
ensure shell aliases and functions are not responsible for the
unexpected behaviour.
Best Regards,
Carl W.
$ env cal 9 1752
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
$ env ncal 9 1752
September 1752
Mo 18 25
Tu 1 19 26
We 2 20 27
Th 14 21 28
Fr 15 22 29
Sa 16 23 30
Su 17 24
$ env ncal -b 9 1752
September 1752
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
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
$ env ncal -p
AL Albania 1912-11-30 IT Italy 1582-10-04
AT Austria 1583-10-05 JP Japan 1918-12-18
AU Australia 1752-09-02 LI Lithuania 1918-02-01
BE Belgium 1582-12-14 LN Latin 9999-05-31
BG Bulgaria 1916-03-18 LU Luxembourg 1582-12-14
CA Canada 1752-09-02 LV Latvia 1918-02-01
CH Switzerland 1655-02-28 NL Netherlands 1582-12-14
CN China 1911-12-18 NO Norway 1700-02-18
CZ Czech Republic 1584-01-06 PL Poland 1582-10-04
DE Germany 1700-02-18 PT Portugal 1582-10-04
DK Denmark 1700-02-18 RO Romania 1919-03-31
ES Spain 1582-10-04 RU Russia 1918-01-31
FI Finland 1753-02-17 SI Slovenia 1919-03-04
FR France 1582-12-09 SE Sweden 1753-02-17
*GB United Kingdom 1752-09-02 TR Turkey 1926-12-18
GR Greece 1924-03-09 US United States 1752-09-02
HU Hungary 1587-10-21 YU Yugoslavia 1919-03-04
IS Iceland 1700-11-16
$ env ncal -s GB 9 1752
September 1752
Mo 18 25
Tu 1 19 26
We 2 20 27
Th 14 21 28
Fr 15 22 29
Sa 16 23 30
Su 17 24
$ env ncal -b 9 1752
September 1752
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
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
$ env ncal -s GB -b 9 1752
September 1752
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
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
$ env ncal -b 9 1752 -s GB
September 1752
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
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
$ env ncal -b 10 1582 -s GB
October 1582
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
1 2 3 4 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
$
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND,
TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii bsdutils 1:2.33.1-0.1
ii debianutils 4.8.6.1
ii libbsd0 0.9.1-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
bsdmainutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii cpp 4:8.3.0-1
pn vacation <none>
ii wamerican [wordlist] 2018.04.16-1
ii wbritish [wordlist] 2018.04.16-1
ii whois 5.4.3
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