How to make FreeBSD variant of cal start weeks on mondays?

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Can week start day be changed in cal output? Is it hardcoded? Notice: not the ncal.

jasonwryan · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-08T01:41:09.863

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For util-linux

man cal:

-m, --monday
Display Monday as the first day of the week.

For FreeBSD According to this recent thread on the FreeBSD boards, you will need the deskutils port.

For Ubuntu There is a bug report: seems you can either use ncal or the debian patch.

edited Oct 08 '12 at 01:41

answered Oct 08 '12 at 01:20

jasonwryan

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We have different versions. Line from FreeBSD manual: `-m month Display the specified month.` – int_ua Oct 08 '12 at 01:28
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Works fine here... `util-linux 2.22-6` You might have specified BSD – jasonwryan Oct 08 '12 at 01:29
Didn't know there are multiple variants. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, actually, but cal is provided by bsdmainutils 8.2.3. And `dpkg -L util-linux | grep cal` gives nothing. – int_ua Oct 08 '12 at 01:35

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 06 '15 at 08:34

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When cal -m does not work, you can try to alias ncal -M -C as cal. Works for me, but I am not sure that it will work in every variant of cal (and ncal).

edited Aug 06 '15 at 08:34

TPS

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answered Aug 06 '15 at 08:08

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How to make FreeBSD variant of cal start weeks on mondays?

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