CAL(1)CAL(1)NAME
cal - display a calendar
SYNOPSIS
cal [ [month] year]
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.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
month
Specify the month to be displayed, represented as a decimal
integer from 1 (January) to 12 (December). The default is the
current month.
year
Specify the year for which the calendar is displayed, repre‐
sented as a decimal integer from 1 to 9999. The default is the
current year.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
that affect the execution of cal: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_TIME,
LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
TZ
Determine the timezone used to calculate the value of the current
month.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0
Successful completion.
>0
An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │ Standard │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
SEE ALSOcalendar(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)NOTES
An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752. That is the month 11
days were skipped to make up for lack of leap year adjustments. To see
this calendar, type:
cal 9 1752
The command cal 83 refers to the year 83, not 1983.
The year is always considered to start in January.
Feb 1, 1995 CAL(1)