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I lost a hundred bucks to this behavior. http://alangrow.com/blog/how-i-lost-100-and-blamed-cal http://alangrow.com/blog/how-i-lost-100-and-blamed-cal
by sigil 10y ago
I lost a hundred bucks to this behavior.
http://alangrow.com/blog/how-i-lost-100-and-blamed-cal http://alangrow.com/blog/how-i-lost-100-and-blamed-cal
- codezero 10y agoHow did you not notice calendar on the flight booking site? I've never used one that took a date string without showing a clickable calendar.
- sigil 10y agoThis was aa.com circa 2008, back when datepicker widgets were the hot new thing and calendars in popup windows ruled the earth. Call me old-fashioned but I like keyboards (still)?
- codezero 10y agoarchive.org shows a date picker going back as far as 2002, but it is easy to pick a date from the drop down.
- sigil 10y agoThe dropdown doesn't help you with "fourth Thursday in November" though, and the calendar button launches a popup window that doesn't work. On archive.org at least -- may have worked at the time, but I disable popups, so... Pretty sure my thought process was: need a Thanksgiving flight -> when is Thanksgiving this year? -> run cal(1) -> let's book.
- ams6110 10y agoIf you need a month in the current year, or the entire current year, that's easy: $ cal may May 2016 Su Mo Tu We Th 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 $ cal -y 2016 January February March Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 27 28 29 30 31 31 [...]