cal(1) cal(1)
NAME
cal - print calendar
SYNOPSIS
cal [[month] year]
DESCRIPTION
cal prints a calendar for the specified year. If a month is
also specified, a calendar just for that month is printed. If
neither is specified, a calendar for the present month is
printed. The month is a number between 1 and 12. The year
can be between 1 and 9999. The calendar produced is in the
form of a Gregorian calendar (as used in Western Europe and
the United States), but the month and the abbreviated day
names are taken from the locale given by the environment
variable LC_TIME.
cal examines the environment variables LC_TIME to determine
the names of the months and days, and LC_CTYPE for how to
print the characters the names are composed from. If the
abbreviated day name in the locale entry is longer than two
screen columns in width, it is truncated to two columns.
Files
/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES/uxue
language-specific message file [see LANG on environ(5)].
NOTICES
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 even though
this is historically naive.
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