User Commands                                              cal(1)

NAME
     cal - display a calendar

SYNOPSIS
     cal [  [ month ]  year  ]

DESCRIPTION
     The cal utility writes a Gregorian calendar to standard out-
     put.  If  the year operand is specified, a calendar for that
     year is written. If no operands are  specified,  a  calendar
     for the current month is written.

OPERANDS
     The following operands are supported:

     month Specify the month to be displayed,  represented  as  a
           decimal integer from 1 (January) to 12 (December). The
           default is the current month.

     year  Specify the year for which the calendar is  displayed,
           represented  as  a decimal integer from 1 to 9999. The
           default is the current year.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     See  environ(5) for descriptions of the  following  environ-
     ment  variables  that  affect the execution of cal: LC_TIME,
     LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0     Successful completion.

     >0    An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWesu                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

SEE ALSO
     calendar(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES
     An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752.  That  is
     the  month  11 days were skipped to make up for lack of leap

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User Commands                                              cal(1)

     year adjustments. To see this calendar, type:

          cal 9 1752

     The command cal 83 refers to the year 83, not 1983.

     The year is always considered to start in January.

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