cal, ncal: week start on Monday

c_geier

c_geier

Hi,

I have some questions regarding cal/ncal, I don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask these questions, but perhaps someone can help me.

So, I want a cal or ncal to start weeks on Monday (since I'm used to this) and want the classic cal layout. But I manage to get only one:

cal or ncal -C provide the classic layout and
ncal -s DE lets the week start on Monday but is incompatible with ncal -C.

On my Ubuntu machine at work I can get what I want with ncal -MC. Strangely ncal is part of the bsdmainutils package and is supposedly taken from FreeBSD and written by the same author.

Does anybody know if and how if so, how I can get the output I want or even why it isn't possible?

Thanks for your help.
 
I think the best you can do with ncal is just $ ncal. On my machine this gives
Code: 
tingo@kg-v2$ ncal
    March 2012        
Mo     5 12 19 26   
Tu     6 13 20 27   
We     7 14 21 28   
Th  1  8 15 22 29   
Fr  2  9 16 23 30   
Sa  3 10 17 24 31   
Su  4 11 18 25
Other than that, I think you must look for another calendar program. There are a few in ports.
 
Checkout deskutils/cal. After installing try command:
$ cal -e -noc
for a cal look-a-like with many more oprions. -noc prevents colors and -e is European format. Actually I think it is a very nice calendar utility.

Regards
John
 
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