Manual page for cal(1)
cal - display a calendar
SYNOPSIS
cal
[ [
month
]
year
]
AVAILABILITY
SUNWesu
DESCRIPTION
The
cal
utility writes a Gregorian calendar
to standard output.
If the
year
operand is specified, a calendar for that year is written.
If no operands are specified, a calendar for the current month is written.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
- month
-
Specify the month to be displayed, represented as a decimal integer from
1
(January) to
12
(December).
The default is the current month.
- year
-
Specify the year for which the calendar is displayed,
represented as a decimal integer from
1
to
9999.
The default is the current year.
ENVIRONMENT
See
environ.5
for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect
the execution of
cal:
LC_TIME,
LC_MESSAGES,
and
NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
- 0
-
Successful completion.
- >0
-
An error occurred.
SEE ALSO
calendar.1
environ.5
NOTES
An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752.
That is the month 11 days were skipped to make up
for lack of leap year adjustments.
To see this calendar, type:
-
cal 9 1752
The command cal 83 refers to the year 83, not 1983.
The year is always considered to start in January.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
