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MacBytes
Nov 15, 2003, 05:12 PM
Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: Back in the Day - A new Mac app that lets you check out what happened today...only years ago. (http://www.wonderwarp.com/backintheday/)

Posted on MacBytes.com (http://www.macbytes.com)

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MrMacMan
Nov 16, 2003, 12:02 AM
Decent Historican software...

How often would it need an update?

Once every 20 years?

:p
Chobit
Nov 16, 2003, 10:17 AM
Type

cat /usr/share/calendar/* | grep `date +"%m/%d"`

Into the terminal window and you'll get the same historical information. replace %m and %d with two digit month/day and you'll get it for whatever day you want.
Stike
Nov 16, 2003, 11:26 AM
Why??? Why is something like this contained within the OS???

This is really strange...
Can I update the database myself? :p
stuckwithme247
Nov 16, 2003, 01:16 PM
Originally posted by Stike
Why??? Why is something like this contained within the OS???

This is really strange...
Can I update the database myself? :p
yea, that is really weird. i would like to know where this file is too
Edot
Nov 16, 2003, 10:54 PM
Originally posted by stuckwithme247
yea, that is really weird. i would like to know where this file is too

You can just use the Finder. Go>Go to Folder...>/usr/share/calendar

Seems to be a part of FreeBSD.
This is very interesting, and cool:D
Awimoway
Nov 17, 2003, 12:19 AM
From the FreeBSD version:
11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)

Not being a huge LOTR fan, this confuses me. Are the events in the books recorded by calendar dates?
atodd
Nov 17, 2003, 01:52 AM
yeah. they're all in the appendix for LOTR.
MrMacMan
Nov 17, 2003, 10:51 PM
Yeah its built into the OS.

There is a GUI for everything.