31 The Calendar and the Diary
Emacs provides the functions of a desk calendar, with a diary of planned or past events. It also has facilities for managing your appointments, and keeping track of how much time you spend working on certain projects.
To enter the calendar, type M-x calendar. This displays a
three-month calendar centered on the current month, with point on the
current date. With a numeric argument, as in C-u M-x calendar, it
prompts you for the month and year to be the center of the three-month
calendar. The calendar uses its own buffer, whose major mode is
Calendar mode.
mouse-3 in the calendar brings up a menu of operations on a
particular date; mouse-2 brings up a menu of commonly used
calendar features that are independent of any particular date. To exit
the calendar, type q.
- Movement in the Calendar
- Scrolling in the Calendar
- Counting Days
- Miscellaneous Calendar Commands
- Writing Calendar Files
- Holidays
- Times of Sunrise and Sunset
- Phases of the Moon
- Conversion To and From Other Calendars
- The Diary
- Daylight Saving Time
- Summing Time Intervals
- More advanced features of the Calendar and Diary