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Subject: Re: v2.32 cal(1)
From: J William Piggott <elseifthen () gmx ! com>
Date: 2017-12-21 2:43:43
Message-ID: a81f3f7c-77fc-fd98-c440-e326be8ea4db () gmx ! com
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On 12/20/2017 12:42 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 04:29:43PM +0000, Adam Sampson wrote:
>> Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> The problem is that year 1752 is very specific to British Empire and
>>> for example Catholic Europe moved to the Gregorian calendar in year
>>> 1582.
>> ...
>>> * later (after warning in release notes) we can make --gregorian as
>>> the default
>>
>> The date of cal's switch is specified in POSIX as 1752, though:
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cal.html
>> (with a note that future versions may make this depend on the locale).
>
> It sounds like too complicated semantic to depend on locale. Don't
> also forget that switch from one calendar to another means extra
> calculation (for example skip 11 days for British Empire way, etc).
>
>> So if the default is changed, it would be worth noting the deviation
>> from POSIX in the man page, and maybe even defaulting to the old
>
> Good point.
>
>> behaviour if POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined, as, e.g., coreutils does for
>> other bits of dubious but mandated behaviour.
>>
>> I wonder if it might be more helpful just to report an error if cal is
>> run for a year prior to 1926 without explicitly specifying which
>> calendar to use?
>
> I think we can follow the current default behavior for ever, and just
> add --iso/--gregorian for people who care.
I think the standard is being misunderstood.
Issue 2 required the Gregorian format:
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http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/cal.html
DESCRIPTION
The cal utility writes a Gregorian calendar to standard output. If the year
operand is specified, a calendar for that year is written. If no operands
are specified, a calendar for the current month is written.
_____________________________
The reason for the change in issue 6 was to *allow* Julian:
_____________________________
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cal.html
Issue 6
The DESCRIPTION is updated to allow for traditional behavior for years before
the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.
_____________________________
There is no default format specified, only what cal(1) shall be capable of.
There is a similar requirement for Julian placed on date(1). Coreutils
date command not only defaults to proleptic Gregorian, but doesn't have
any Julian capability.
So I think having cal(1) default to proleptic Gregorian is not only
allowed by POSIX, but it should be expected to correlate with date(1).
>
> Karel
>
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