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System Administrator Appreciation Day my ASS!

Great. Thanks guys. Schedule the damn thing as the “last Friday of July”.

Just one more damn thing I have to go update in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.* so that calendar(1) works right. Assholes.

Specifically:

[...]
     calendar.christian  Christian holidays.  This calendar should be updated
			 yearly by the local system administrator so that rov-
			 ing holidays are set correctly for the current year.
[...]
     calendar.judaic	 Jewish holidays.  This calendar should be updated
			 yearly by the local system administrator so that rov-
			 ing holidays are set correctly for the current year.
[...]
     calendar.usholiday  U.S. holidays.  This calendar should be updated
			 yearly by the local system administrator so that rov-
			 ing holidays are set correctly for the current year.

SAAD creates this diff (diff of the output here; yes, of course, one should diff the roff(7) input file if one were to actually go changing anything, but this is here for readability, which unprocessed roff(7) isn't so much):

--- calendar.1.orig     Fri Jul 25 11:23:59 2003
+++ calendar.1  Fri Jul 25 11:27:54 2003
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@
                          yearly by the local system administrator so that rov-
                          ing holidays are set correctly for the current year.
      calendar.computer   Days of special significance to computer people.
+                         Contains one lousy holiday (System Administrator
+                         Appreciation Day, of all things) that should be
+                         updated yearly by the local system administrator so
+                         that the roving holidays are set correctly for the
+                         current year.
      calendar.history    Everything  else,  mostly  U. S. historical events.
      calendar.holiday    Other  holidays,  including  the  not-well-known,
                          obscure, and really obscure.

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