How to view yearly days calendar in console (terminal) / Check Eastern date from terminal on Linux

Thursday, 7th October 2010

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.

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One Response to “How to view yearly days calendar in console (terminal) / Check Eastern date from terminal on Linux”

  1. necroleak says:
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    I never knew about this tool and I always needed something like this. COOL info ! Thanks.

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