Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 22:57:15 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: calendar(1) problems Message-ID: <20110524035715.GA16337@mppsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <DAC48245-8168-4361-A691-2C57CDEE23D7@gsoft.com.au> References: <DAC48245-8168-4361-A691-2C57CDEE23D7@gsoft.com.au>
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On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 04:53:40PM +0200, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I have the following calendar entry.. > > Tue+2 test > > for the second Tuesday in the month. This used to work in 6.x however it prints the following in 7.x and onward > [maarsy-acq2 14:47] ~ >calendar -f testcal > Unprocessed: > ------- > date: |Tue+2| > flags: 10a - dayofweek modifierindex variable > modifierindex: |+2| > dayofweek: |Tue| (2) > Ignored: Tue+2 test > > Although now that I go to test it I find that 4.8 and 6.3 don't print anything for.. > calendar -f testcal -A 120 > > which surprises me because I definitely received email from the system when it ran calendar -a.. Way way back...like in 1996 when I changed calendar to actually print the date of variable event entries, like your Tue+2 entry (it used to print "Tue+2", there were some issues with some month wraps, etc and some odd end cases that just displayed improperly. A lot of times a normal calendar run would print just fine, but different values of -A #### wouldn't match up. Several years after making the changes, I wished I had just gutted all of the date processing in calendar and started fresh instead of shoe-horning in the changes I made. Around that time there was some debate about just importing OpenBSD's (or maybe it was NetBSD's) calendar so I left it alone and forgot about it. That import never happened, and there are still some oddities floating around, as you can see. -- Mike Pritchard mpp @ FreeBSD.org "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison (1787)
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