Back in the Day - A new Mac app that lets you check out what...

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MacBytes

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Original poster

• Nov 15, 2003

• #1

Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: Back in the Day - A new Mac app that lets you check out what happened today...only years ago.

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MrMacMan

macrumors 604

• Nov 15, 2003

• #2

Decent Historican software...

How often would it need an update?

Once every 20 years?

😛

 

Chobit

macrumors member

• Nov 16, 2003

• #3

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

macrumors 65816

• Nov 16, 2003

• #4

Why??? Why is something like this contained within the OS???

This is really strange...
Can I update the database myself? 😛

 

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stuckwithme247

macrumors regular

• Nov 16, 2003

• #5

Originally posted by Stike
Why??? Why is something like this contained within the OS???

This is really strange...
Can I update the database myself? 😛

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yea, that is really weird. i would like to know where this file is too

 

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Edot

macrumors 6502

• Nov 16, 2003

• #6

File

Originally posted by stuckwithme247
yea, that is really weird. i would like to know where this file is too

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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😀

 

Awimoway

macrumors 68000

• Nov 16, 2003

• #7

From the FreeBSD version:

11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)

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Not being a huge LOTR fan, this confuses me. Are the events in the books recorded by calendar dates?

 

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atodd

macrumors member

• Nov 16, 2003

• #8

yeah. they're all in the appendix for LOTR.

 

MrMacMan

macrumors 604

• Nov 17, 2003

• #9

Yeah its built into the OS.

There is a GUI for everything.