NAME

calendar − reminder service

SYNOPSIS

calendar [ − ]

DESCRIPTION

Calendar consults the file calendar in the current directory and prints out lines that contain today’s or tomorrow’s date anywhere in the line.  Most reasonable month-day dates such as “Dec. 7,” “december 7,” “12/7,” etc., are recognized, but not “7 December’ or “7/12”.  On weekends “tomorrow” extends through Monday. 

When an argument is present, calendar does its job for every user who has a file calendar in his login directory and sends him any positive results by mail(1). Normally this is done daily in the wee hours under control of cron(1M).

FILES

calendar
/usr/lib/calprog    to figure out today’s and tomorrow’s dates
/etc/passwd
/tmp/cal∗
/usr/lib/crontab

SEE ALSO

cron(1M), mail(1). 

BUGS

Your calendar must be public information for you to get reminder service. 
Calendar’s extended idea of “tomorrow” does not account for holidays. 

May 16, 1980