Re: "never ending month" calendar?

From	bofh@spuddy.org (Stephen Harris)
Newsgroups	alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject	Re: "never ending month" calendar?
Date	2021-12-29 14:39 -0500
Organization	NOT Spud's Public Usenet Domain
Message-ID	<tgdiqs.bcd.ln@spuddy.org> (permalink)
References	<slrnssp9g9.eff.hymie@nasalinux.net>

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hymie! <hymie@nasalinux.net> wrote:
> I hope this isn't UI.

> Many years ago, we used to comment on September 1994 (when AOL joined
> Usenet) as the "month that never ended," and you used to see people
> referring to the days as "3274 September 1994".

> Does anybody know where I might find such a thing?  It seems like March
> 2020 would be another candidate, and my programming skills are not what
> they used to be.

We can cheat.

  #!/bin/bash

  set -- $(date "$@" +"%s %a %X %Z")
  case $0 in
    *september) o=8643  ; m=Sep ; y=1993 ;;
      *covdate) o=18321 ; m=Mar ; y=2020 ;;
             *) echo Unknown command
                exit
  esac
  let d=$1/86400-$o
  echo "$2 $m $d $3 $4 $y"


-- 

rgds
Stephen

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