"never ending month" calendar?

[hymie!]

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.

--hymie! http://nasalinux.net/~hymie ***@nasalinux.net

[Stephen Harris]

Post by hymie!
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"

[hymie!]

(forgot my chicken sacrifice, sorry if you see a double post)

In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,

Post by Stephen Harris
#!/bin/bash
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"

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

--hymie!
Monday, March 681, 2020

[Grant Taylor]

Post by Stephen Harris
We can cheat.

Cute.

Post by Stephen Harris
#!/bin/bash
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"

*exchangedate) 0=18961 ; M=Dec ; y=2021 ;;

For Microsoft's recent Exchange date problem.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die