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

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

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Approved by arn

 

[MrMacMan]

Decent Historican software...

How often would it need an update?

Once every 20 years?

 

[Chobit]

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]

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

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

 

[stuckwithme247]

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

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

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

 

[Edot]

File

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

 

[Awimoway]

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]

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

 

[MrMacMan]

Yeah its built into the OS.

There is a GUI for everything.