Re: bin/41945: calendar(1) doesn't recognize days of the week correctly sometimes

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/41945; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/41945: calendar(1) doesn't recognize days of the week
        correctly sometimes
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:28:40 +0000

 On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:25:01PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
  > With the following .calendar/calendar file, consisting of just one line:
  >     Friday A
  > Run "calendar" for Monday, July 6, 2009, i.e.
  >     calendar -d 0706
  > Wonder why it mentions
  >     Friday A
  > in the output.
 
 The problem is that it's conflating days of the week with days of the
 month. Friday is day 6 of the week, apparently.
 
 The logic involved is structured with chewing gum and fixing it
 robustly does not look to be entirely trivial. :-/
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost