drop in parsemonth from freebsd.
use it to parse month, so "cal june 2005" works as expected.
if only one arg is given, see if it could be a month (without interfering
if it's a year).

there's plenty more cleanup to do, but this at least makes it a bit more
convenient to use.

Index: cal.c
================================================== =================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/cal/cal.c,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 cal.c
--- cal.c 2005/04/13 18:52:59 1.11
+++ cal.c 2005/06/28 03:00:53
@@ -159,12 +159,22 @@
month = 0;
switch(argc) {
case 2:
- if ((month = atoi(*argv++)) < 1 || month > 12)
- errx(1, "illegal month value: use 1-12");
+ month = parsemonth(*argv++);
+ if (!month)
+ errx(1, "Unable to parse month");
/* FALLTHROUGH */
case 1:
- if ((year = atoi(*argv)) < 1 || year > 9999)
- errx(1, "illegal year value: use 1-9999");
+ if (argc == 1 && !isdigit(*argv[0])) {
+ month = parsemonth(*argv);
+ if (!month)
+ errx(1, "illegal year value: use 1-9999");
+ (void)time(&now);
+ local_time = localtime(&now);
+ year = local_time->tm_year + TM_YEAR_BASE;
+ } else {
+ if ((year = atoi(*argv)) < 1 || year > 9999)
+ errx(1, "illegal year value: use 1-9999");
+ }
break;
case 0:
(void)time(&now);
@@ -416,4 +426,21 @@

(void)fprintf(stderr, "usage: cal [-jy] [[month] year]\n");
exit(1);
+}
+
+int
+parsemonth(const char *s)
+{
+ int v;
+ char *cp;
+ struct tm tm;
+
+ v = (int)strtol(s, &cp, 10);
+ if (cp != s)
+ return (v);
+ if (strptime(s, "%B", &tm) != NULL)
+ return (tm.tm_mon + 1);
+ if (strptime(s, "%b", &tm) != NULL)
+ return (tm.tm_mon + 1);
+ return (0);
}

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