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Bug#282490: marked as done (gcal: poor choice of default year)

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regarding gcal: poor choice of default year
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Package: gcal
Version: 3.01.1-5.1
Severity: wishlist

If I type "gcal 12" I get the calendar for December of the current year. 
Excellent. If it is November 2004 and I type "gcal 2", I get February
2004, but February 2005 is probably what I want. 

So, I suggest that if a only a month is given, it be the next month of
that number, not the month of that number of the current year.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA

Versions of packages gcal depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

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* Liam K Morland <Liam@Morland.ca> [2004-11-18 16:54:20 CET]:
> If I type "gcal 12" I get the calendar for December of the current year. 
> Excellent. If it is November 2004 and I type "gcal 2", I get February
> 2004, but February 2005 is probably what I want. 

 Why would you rather want February 2005 than February 2004? It's not
that uncommon to look up past dates. If one would switch to your
suggestion I'm sure the next bug report that pops up is about "but that
is just past month, why would I care about something 11 months in the
future!".

 Given that it most propably will never be possible to get a concensus
on about wether people rather would like to always see into the future
months or wether people rather would like to always see into the past
months I guess the current approach with giving the month of the
_current year_ is a pretty sane default and somehow the approach with
least surprises.

 Given that this would also be a change to the current behavior it's
extremely unlikely that it will get switched within Debian. If you feel
strongly about this change please take it up to upstream developers
directly at <bug-gcal@gnu.org>.

 Thanks. :)
Rhonda

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