Re: Calendar program dates

2003-08-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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Mutilated quotations.

On Thursday, 21 August 2003 at 10:43:17 -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
 OK, I jumped the gun here.
 After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I
 realize that it
 sends an event for tomorrow if no event for today exists.
 Sorry about that.  :-)


 From the man page:-

  The calendar utility checks the current directory for a file
 named calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's
 date or tomor- row's.  On the day before a weekend (normally
 Friday), events for the next three days are displayed.

 I read the man page before I posted, but didn't understand what either
 today's date or tomorrow's. meant before I browsed the calendar.*
 files.  I thought it might be set to display tomorrow's date by default
 and I needed to set it to display today's date.

Here's what I use for the same purpose:

   #!/bin/sh
   #
   # Go through the calendars and find out what happened today.
   cd /usr/share/calendar
   (for i in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.*; do calendar -W -1 -f $i 2/dev/null; 
done) | sort | uniq | mail -s Today's anniversaries grog 

Greg
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RE: Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Howse
 Hi,
 I've got the calendar program emailing me events that 
 occurred (supposedly) today in history.
 
 However, it's listing events that occurred tomorrow.  Is that normal?
 The date is correct on my system and the email date is correct.

OK, I jumped the gun here.
After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I realize that it
sends an event for tomorrow if no event for today exists.
Sorry about that.  :-) 


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Re: Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:48, Charles Howse wrote:
  Hi,
  I've got the calendar program emailing me events that
  occurred (supposedly) today in history.
 
  However, it's listing events that occurred tomorrow.  Is that normal?
  The date is correct on my system and the email date is correct.

 OK, I jumped the gun here.
 After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I realize that it
 sends an event for tomorrow if no event for today exists.
 Sorry about that.  :-)


From the man page:-

 The calendar utility checks the current directory for a file named
 calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's date or tomor-
 row's.  On the day before a weekend (normally Friday), events for the
 next three days are displayed.

Malcolm
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RE: Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Howse
  OK, I jumped the gun here.
  After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I 
 realize that it
  sends an event for tomorrow if no event for today exists.
  Sorry about that.  :-)
 
 
 From the man page:-
 
  The calendar utility checks the current directory for a 
 file named
  calendar and displays lines that begin with either 
 today's date or tomor-
  row's.  On the day before a weekend (normally Friday), 
 events for the
  next three days are displayed.

I read the man page before I posted, but didn't understand what either
today's date or tomorrow's. meant before I browsed the calendar.*
files.  I thought it might be set to display tomorrow's date by default
and I needed to set it to display today's date.


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