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CALENDAR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CALENDAR(1)

NAME
calendar - print upcoming events SYNOPSIS
calendar [ file ] DESCRIPTION
Calendar reads the named file, default /usr/$user/lib/calendar, and writes to standard output any lines containing today's or tomorrow's date. Examples of recognized date formats are "4/11", "April 11", "Apr 11", "11 April", and "11 Apr". All comparisons are case insensi- tive. On Friday and Saturday, events through Monday are printed. To have your calendar mailed to you every day, use cron(8). FILES
/usr/$user/lib/calendar personal calendar SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/calendar.c CALENDAR(1)

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CAL_FROM_JD(3)								 1							    CAL_FROM_JD(3)

cal_from_jd - Converts from Julian Day Count to a supported calendar

SYNOPSIS
array cal_from_jd (int $jd, int $calendar) DESCRIPTION
cal_from_jd(3) converts the Julian day given in $jd into a date of the specified $calendar. Supported $calendar values are CAL_GREGORIAN, CAL_JULIAN, CAL_JEWISH and CAL_FRENCH. PARAMETERS
o $jd - Julian day as integer o $calendar - Calendar to convert to RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing calendar information like month, day, year, day of week, abbreviated and full names of weekday and month and the date in string form "month/day/year". EXAMPLES
Example #1 cal_from_jd(3) example <?php $today = unixtojd(mktime(0, 0, 0, 8, 16, 2003)); print_r(cal_from_jd($today, CAL_GREGORIAN)); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [date] => 8/16/2003 [month] => 8 [day] => 16 [year] => 2003 [dow] => 6 [abbrevdayname] => Sat [dayname] => Saturday [abbrevmonth] => Aug [monthname] => August ) SEE ALSO
cal_to_jd(3), jdtofrench(3), jdtogregorian(3), jdtojewish(3), jdtojulian(3), jdtounix(3). PHP Documentation Group CAL_FROM_JD(3)
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