Re: Weekday abbreviations in output of cal(1)

[Wolfgang Solfrank <Wolfgang%Solfrank.net@localhost>]

Hi,

> Because yesterday was unsuitable to check for the ambiguity how the second
> "1" in that expression is actually parsed.  Is it parsed as in:
>
> 	(+1 month 1) thu
>
> as in "go next month, its 1st, forward to Thursday",
> or is it:
>
> 	+1 month (1 thu)
>
> as in "go next month (same day as today, i.e. 2nd NOW), forward 1 thu".
> This would skip the weekdays already passed, such as the upcoming
> Saturday on Aug 1st.   And indeed:
>
> 	$ date -d '+1 month 1 sat'
> 	Sat Aug  8 00:00:00 CEST 2020
>
> That is: the expression is, alas, *not* good enough to compute the
> "first $WEEKDAY of next month".  I am at a loss how to do this with
> NetBSD's date(1).

Thanks for the explanation.

Ok, let's try with a double invocation:

$ date -d "$(date -d '+1 month' '+%m/01/%C%y') sat"
Sat Aug  1 00:00:00 CEST 2020

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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