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calendar(1)			 User Commands			   calendar(1)

NAME
       calendar - reminder service

SYNOPSIS
       calendar [-]

DESCRIPTION
       The  calendar  utility consults the file calendar in the current direc‐
       tory and writes lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date  anywhere
       in the line to standard output. Most reasonable month-day dates such as
       Aug. 24, august 24, 8/24, and so forth,	are  recognized,  but  not  24
       August or 24/8. On Fridays and weekends "tomorrow" extends through Mon‐
       day. calendar can be invoked regularly by using the crontab(1) or at(1)
       commands.

       When  the  optional  argument  -	 is present, calendar does its job for
       every user who has a file calendar in his or her	 login	directory  and
       sends them any positive results by mail(1). Normally this is done daily
       by facilities in the UNIX operating system (seecron(1M)).

       If the environment variable DATEMSK is set, calendar will use its value
       as the full path name of a template file containing format strings. The
       strings consist of conversion specifications and	 text  characters  and
       are used to provide a richer set of allowable date formats in different
       languages by appropriate settings of the environment variable  LANG  or
       LC_TIME; see environ(5). Seestrftime(3C) for the list of allowable con‐
       version specifications.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1: Possible contents of a template

       The following example shows the possible contents of a template:

       %B %eth of the year %Y

       %B represents the full month name, %e the day of month and %Y the  year
       (4 digits).

       If  DATEMSK  is set to this template, the following calendar file would
       be valid:

       March 7th of the year 1989 <Reminder>

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment  variables
       that  affect the execution of calendar: LC_CTYPE, LC_TIME, LC_MESSAGES,
       NLSPATH, and TZ.

EXIT STATUS
       0	Successful completion.

       >0	An error occurred.

FILES
       /etc/passwd	       system password file

       /tmp/cal*	       temporary files used by calendar

       /usr/lib/calprog	       program used to determine dates for  today  and
			       tomorrow

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │SUNWesu			   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       at(1),	crontab(1),   mail(1),	 cron(1M),  ypbind(1M),	 strftime(3C),
       attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES
       Appropriate lines beginning with white space will not be printed.

       Your calendar must be public information for you to get	reminder  ser‐
       vice.

       calendar's extended idea of ``tomorrow'' does not account for holidays.

       The  -  argument	 works	only  on  calendar files that are local to the
       machine; calendar is intended not to work on calendar  files  that  are
       mounted	remotely  with	NFS.  Thus, `calendar -' should be run only on
       diskful machines where home directories exist;  running it on  a	 disk‐
       less client has no effect.

       calendar	 is no longer in the default root crontab. Because of the net‐
       work burden `calendar -' can induce, it is inadvisable in  an  environ‐
       ment  running  ypbind(1M) with a large passwd.byname map.  If, however,
       the usefulness of calendar outweighs the network impact, the super-user
       may  run	 `crontab  -e' to edit the root crontab. Otherwise, individual
       users may wish to use `crontab -e' to edit their own crontabs  to  have
       cron  invoke  calendar  without	the  - argument, piping output to mail
       addressed to themselves.

SunOS 5.10			  1 Feb 1995			   calendar(1)
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