Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown

[nabeards]

https://qwerty.dev/calendar-generator/

[fauria]

Being this a Unicode calendar generator, notice that according to the internacional standard ISO 8601 Monday is the first day of the week.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[lifthrasiir → fauria]

ISO 8601 is not related to Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646), but if you do care about Unicode you may notice that Unicode CLDR actually supports the preferred first day of the week as a part of locale identifiers [1] (e.g. en-US-u-fw-mon will make the first day of the week Monday, as opposed to the default Sunday for USA).

[1] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#UnicodeFirstDayIdentif...

[dhosek → fauria]

The definition of Monday as the first day of the week is strictly for the sake of week numbering over the course of the year and does not indicate that a calendar which displays weeks starting with Sunday violates the ISO standard.

[psd1 → fauria]

Yep, making Sunday the zero'th day.

[fauria → psd1]

:) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

update: technically year 0 in ISO 8601 corresponds to year 1 BC

[jcranmer → fauria]

> :) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc)

If you ask POSIX, or any date/time API that slavishly copies POSIX (say, java.util.Date or JavaScript's Date object), January is month 0.

[radomir_cernoch → psd1]

This comment made my day. :-)

[sambeau]

This is a lovely little project but it makes no claims to be for markdown—the site makes no mention of it as far as I can see. And, of course these fun unicode calendars don't render in Markdown.

Can we change the title back to "Unicode Calendar Generator"?

[eevilspock → sambeau]

Not only that, the copy to clipboard function produces text that DOES NOT render correctly when pasted into a Markdown doc.

[nabeards → eevilspock]

Interesting, it renders properly for me. I paste it in surrounded by the triple backtick.

[kingofpandora → nabeards]

You don't put Markdown surrounded by triple backticks though... That's for code or other text that is not Markdown.

[zmix]

With Pandoc's Simple Table format[1] it's as simple as (plain ASCII):

    : October       2021

    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
    -- -- -- -- -- -- --
                   01 02 
    03 04 05 06 07 08 09
    10 11 12 13 14 15 16
    17 18 19 20 21 22 23
    24 25 26 27 28 29 30

the only caveat being, that "October 2021" is implemented as caption and thus will become centered.

And then:

    pandoc -f markdown -t html -o ./pandoc-table.html ./pandoc-table.md

[1]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables

[zmix → zmix]

Now if cal(1) could produce this, that would be even more awesome. Currently it does this by default:

        Oktober 2021
    So Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa
                    1  2
     3  4  5  6  7  8  9
    10 11 12 13 14 15 16
    17 18 19 20 21 22 23
    24 25 26 27 28 29 30
    31

[MrOxiMoron]

On Firefox for android they don't render that great, the first row is misaligned and the day indicator is all over the place.

[mixmastamyk]

Try the rounded corners, looks nice:

    ╭────────────────────╮
    │ October       2021 │
    ├──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┤
    │Su│Mo│Tu│We│Th│Fr│Sa│
    ├──┼──┼──╔══╗──┼──┼──┤
    │10│11│12║13║14│15│16│
    ├──┼──┼──╚══╝──┼──┼──┤
    │24│25│26│27│28│29│30│
    ╰──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──╯

http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=arc

[kdeldycke → mixmastamyk]

TIL about unicode rounded corners.

Thanks @mixmastamyk, you just inspired me to add support for them into the python-tabulate project: https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/pull/151

[aloisdg]

There is a bug. October has 31 days, but the generated calendar have 30 days. Since the website doesn't seems to be open source, I cant fix it.

[jfk13 → aloisdg]

And February 2021 only had 27 days, apparently... hmm.

[cgijoe]

This has nothing to do with Markdown. Was that word included for SEO or something? Perhaps a better title would be "ASCII Art Calendars".

[mikestew → cgijoe]

"markdown" is not to be found on the page, so it's not for SEO; the submitter (incorrectly) editorialized the title. It's also not restricted to ASCII, so your suggestion does not increase title accuracy.

[nabeards → mikestew]

Apologies, it was sent to me as a Markdown-compatible calendar generator. Didn’t mean to editorialize the title.

[focom]

Is the lib to generate those opensource? Would love to try it

[JamesCoyne]

heh. If you overflow the date past the past about year +/- 250000 you break the website and it has to be reloaded (in Firefox at least)

[harrylepotter → JamesCoyne]

October 31 is easier.