Maybe nerds do need slappin'

[avram]

A typical Unix distro has a bunch of files for use with the calendar program — lists of historical events, holidays, etc. I’ve got my web browser home page set to show me today’s events and holidays, which is how I learned that calendar.history also contains events from Lord of the Rings.

I don’t mean real events, like the date The Two Towers was published, but fictional events, like the date Frodo crossed the Mitheithel. When I was a teenager I probably would have thought this was cute and clever, but now it makes me want to just find the responsible person and ask what other parts of my operating system he might have worked on while stoned.

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[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Does cal "know" jewish holdiay start times?

[avram]

These are for calendar, not cal. (Or maybe cal uses them too, I dunno.)

The answer: No it doesn’t, really, but it thinks it does.