calendar(C) 19 June 1992 calendar(C) Name calendar - invoke a reminder service Syntax calendar [ - ] Description calendar consults the file calendar in the user's current directory and mails the user lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date. Most rea- sonable month-day dates, such as ``Sep. 14'', ``september 14'', and ``9/14'', are recognized, but not ``14 September'', or ``14/9''. On weekends, ``tomorrow'' extends through Monday. Lines that contain the date of a Monday will be sent to the user on the previous Friday. This is not true for holidays. When an argument is present, calendar does its job for every user who has a file calendar in his login directory. Normally this is done daily, in the early morning, under the control of cron(C). Files calendar /usr/lib/calprog To calculate today's and tomorrow's dates /etc/passwd /tmp/cal* See Also cron(C), mail(C) Note To get reminder service, a user's calendar file must have read permission for all. Standards Conformance calendar is conformant with: AT&T SVID Issue 2; and X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 3, 1989.