48.6 Get Calendar for Any Month or Year: calWhat day were you born? If you were born on September 23, 1962, type this command to get a calendar for the month:
% You were born on a Sunday. Be sure to type all four digits of the year. If you don't, you'll get the calendar for 62 A.D.-almost 2000 years ago! To get a calendar for the current month, just type cal (no arguments). You can also get the whole calendar for any year by giving a single argument: the year you want (use all four digits for any year in the last millennium). There seems to be a bug in September 1752:
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But there isn't really a bug.
That's when Great Britain and the (then) American colonies adopted the
Gregorian calendar; what would have been September 3 became September 14,
and the beginning of the year changed from March 25 to January 1.
Hmmmph.
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