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From: Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: bin/34497: calendar(1) does not understand calendars
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The following reply was made to PR bin/34497; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>
To: David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/34497: calendar(1) does not understand calendars
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:14:48 -0800

 On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:30:02 -0800 (PST)
 David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk> wrote:
 
 >  The code is rather weird and obfusciated, but I managed to create a
 fix
 >  for the specific problem reported, but that doesn't stop '2002-01-33'
 >  being misinterpreted, along with other problems that cropped up....
 
 Hah! That's an understatement! Calendar(1) could be used as a prime
 example of how *not* to write code.
 
 >  
 >  However, I don't have enough time to write a calendar(1) replacement
 from
 >  scratch..
 
 There's also a few other bugs in the code that I have come accross (i.e.
 - it can't handle 'the first Thursday of every month') and which I
 thought about fixing, but I've been putting it off because of the time
 it would take. I'm in agreement with you: any way you look at it the
 *only* solution IMO is to rewrite the damned thing. 
 
 Now that I know others would be interested in getting it fixed I'm
 willing to go ahead and do that if a committer is willing to take a look
 at my code.
 
 
 cheers,
 mike makonnen

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