> I think that ship has sailed already, since e.g. -m in the ncal
> version
> specifies the month (a bit superfluously), whereas in the util-linux
> version it
> sets the beginning of the week to Monday.

Not sure why specifying the month is superfluous.

> An alternative I could see would be to drop cal from the ncal package
> and only
> provide cal from util-linux.
> 
> Nothing would be lost, since ncal can act as cal with the -C option,
> so users
> wanting that specific cal could use a function
> 
>     cal() {
>         ncal -C $@
>     }
> 
> and the rest would get a cal that can show week numbers and set the
> beginning of
> the Monday.

Now I'm confused. Is the reason for this proposal to have a cal that
shows week numbers and forces the start of the week to Monday? Well,
ncal does both of this, so why don't you just use something like "ncal
-wMb" as cal? Not that ncal needs "-M", it is able to get this from
your locale.

Michael
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