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by D13Fd 784 days ago
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Maybe the date command can do things like calculate the number of business days between two dates, accounting for U.S. holidays, and add or subtract work days excluding U.S. holidays -- I don't know. But I know it would take more effort than I'm willing to do to figure that out and test it. And I suspect it would involve a few switches and be subject to easy error.

For pulling up the calendar, it's literally a bookmark that brings up a browser tab with the year's calendar, showing U.S. national holidays. Can the cal command show holidays at all? It's unclear.

I think it's a bit sad to discount the value of a clear, usable, and fast GUI over a command-line interface for certain day-to-day tasks. Both tools have their uses.