Re: [PATCH 2/3] cal: Correctly center the year

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This is not intended to be a blocker for the submitted patch; more a
general comment.

I still believe the year header is nonsense. IIRC, when I brought this
up last time nobody replied with any justification for it.

On a standard terminal it scrolls off the screen; this means the user is
unable to tell what year they are looking at. For example, I often have
multiple years open, and when tabbing between them there is nothing
visible to differentiate them. So I have to use 'cal -n 12 1 2020'.

Why is it for 11 months we have 'month year', for 13 months we have
'month year', but for 12 months we have a year header? What is special
about 12 month output. I think this is just a throwback to old printed
calendars with 12 months on a single page.

So what is the justification? What is the use case for having -y drop
the 'month year' format that is used for all other output?



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