Re: Weekday abbreviations in output of cal(1)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Also note that when using ``cal -r'' it still displays 5 lines of
output, even though only 3 (or 4) lines contain any day-numbers.
This results in somewhat excessive vertical white-spacing.

:)

	# cal -r
	   September 1752
	 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
	       1  2 14 15 16
	17 18 19 20 21 22 23
	24 25 26 27 28 29 30
> > >

	# cal
	     June 2020
	 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
	    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

	#


On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Valery Ushakov wrote:

> Michael Siegel <msi%malbolge.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> > So, in the output of NetBSD's cal(1), days are abbreviated with one
> > letter, except for Tuesday and Thursday.
> >
> > I'd say this is:
> >
> >   * inconsistent
> >   * potentially misleading (Saturday and Sunday are both just "S".)
> >   * unnecessarily cryptic
> [...]
> > So, I'd say that, maybe, changing cal(1) in NetBSD to use two-letter
> > abbreviations throughout as well would also be a good thing concerning
> > compatibility with what other (widely-used) Unix-like operating systems do.
>
>
> No objections, but just for context/perspective/pedantry/... :)
>
> 2.11 BSD UNIX #1: Fri Jun 9 08:42:54 PDT 1995
>    root@SSU-64EN137:/usr/src/sys/SYSTEM
>
> [...]
>
> erase, kill ^U, intr ^C
> # cal
> usage: cal [month] year
> # cal 1 72
>   January 72
> S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
>          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
>
> #
>
> -uwe
>
>
> !DSPAM:5efa3111136781460411656!

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