How to view yearly days calendar in console
(terminal) / Check Eastern date from terminal on Linux
Recently while I was browsing for some random information I came
across, something really handy that you can do with the simple text
based command
cal / ncal .
It appears there is a text based (console) way to check for the
weekly date calendar as well as to check the whole calendar in
weeks for a whole year.
1. Here is how you can check for instance the dates numbers as well
as the weeks of the day:
hipo@noah:~$ ncal
October 2010
Su 3 10 17 24 31
Mo 4 11 18 25
Tu 5 12 19 26
We 6 13 20 27
Th 7 14 21 28
Fr 1 8 15 22 29
Sa 2 9 16 23 30
2. If you want to check just the calendar for a particular month
exec the cmd:
hipo@noah:~$ cal 11 2010
November 2010
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
3. To see the Julian Calendar (where each day of the year equals to
a number between (1-365) issue:
hipo@noah:~$ cal 11 2010
November 2010
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
3. To see the Julian Calendar (where each day of the year equals to
a number between (1-365) issue:
hipo@noah:~$ cal -j 2010
This will list you the days for the whole year, the 2010 parameter
actually should be substituted to the year for which you'd like the
calendar to appear.
4. Another very handy thing is that from your terminal / console on
your Linux you can check the day for Eastern both in the (Orthodox
Church & the Roman Catholic Chuch).
hipo@noah:~$ ncal -o 2012
April 15 2012
hipo@noah:~$ ncal -e 2012
April 8 2012
When I was playing with ncal's capabilities able to display the
dates for Eastern for Western Roman Catholic Churches and Western
Roman Catholic Churches, i've came across another interesting
fact.
Like in 2010 in 2011 the date for Eastern for both Orthodox
Christian Churches as well as the Roman Catholic Western Churches
coincides.
In the upcoming year 2011, we're about to celebrate the bright
feast of the Resurrection of our Saviour and God Jesus Christ on
April 24 2011
5. To display a whole calendar with dates and days for the whole
current year issue:
hipo@noah:~$ ncal -y
So I hope this info is helpful to somebody.