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Can week start day be changed in cal output? Is it hardcoded? Notice: not the ncal.

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For util-linux

man cal:

-m, --monday
Display Monday as the first day of the week.


For FreeBSD According to this recent thread on the FreeBSD boards, you will need the deskutils port.

For Ubuntu There is a bug report: seems you can either use ncal or the debian patch.

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  • We have different versions. Line from FreeBSD manual: -m month Display the specified month.
    – int_ua
    Oct 8, 2012 at 1:28
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    Works fine here... util-linux 2.22-6 You might have specified BSD
    – jasonwryan
    Oct 8, 2012 at 1:29
  • Didn't know there are multiple variants. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, actually, but cal is provided by bsdmainutils 8.2.3. And dpkg -L util-linux | grep cal gives nothing.
    – int_ua
    Oct 8, 2012 at 1:35
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When cal -m does not work, you can try to alias ncal -M -C as cal. Works for me, but I am not sure that it will work in every variant of cal (and ncal).

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