One Finish and German developer agree that month year is a stupid
order, the French and British guys disagree and the only natural
choice left is to make it understand ISO style.
coded meaning of 1752/09/03 is only a default, and that everything is
now calculated dynamically.
You can now use -R reform-spec to specify an alternate reform. Read
the fine (new) man page for details on this. There is also a new -r
option which will make cal print the month (or year, if -y is also
given) in which the Gregorian Reform started. I say started only
because if you apply the reform at 9999/1/22, a chunk of January is
knocked out, February and March are missing entirely, and April starts
on the 5th. The use of -r with -y does pretty much what you'd expect.
Also, implement -d day-of-week so that you can tell cal to start the
week on something other that a Sunday. This addresses PR bin/8539 at
long last.
present in the displayed calender. It uses libtermcap to discover the
proper sequences to turn on bold, or uses overstriking if output is
not to a terminal. If you use two -h options with terminal output,
the date is presented in reverse video instead of bold.
Next we'll have to make the Gregorian gap vary with TZ settings, since
the current method (do it only for September 1752) is decidely
Anglo-centric. ;-P
joerg