cal(1) changes

cal(1) changes

[Karel Zak]

 I have committed two changes:

 * make it possible to specify month by name (according to locales)

    $ cal May 2017

 * accept timestamps / relative date

    $ cal '2 weeks ago'

    $ cal '+1year'

    $ cal 'tomorrow'

 We already have function to parse timestamps and I love it when use
 'git log --since', so why not use it for cal? (Note that timestamps
 are based on English and I think it's right thing (for KISS)).

 Comments?

    Karel

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Re: cal(1) changes

[Sami Kerola]

On 31 May 2016 at 17:37, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> wrote:
>  I have committed two changes:
>
>  * make it possible to specify month by name (according to locales)
>
>     $ cal May 2017
>
>  * accept timestamps / relative date
>
>     $ cal '2 weeks ago'
>
>     $ cal '+1year'
>
>     $ cal 'tomorrow'
>
>  We already have function to parse timestamps and I love it when use
>  'git log --since', so why not use it for cal? (Note that timestamps
>  are based on English and I think it's right thing (for KISS)).
>
>  Comments?

Sounds fitting. I am in favour.

I wonder if various time, calendar, interval expressions such as
examples above, and timestamp printers & parsers could be turned
into a libtime. If such library would exist the good question is if
anyone would want to use shared resource like this.

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Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/