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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#dialogs"/>
    <desc>Use the <cmd>--calendar</cmd> option.</desc>
    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
  </info>
  <title>Calendar Dialog</title>
    <p>
        Use the <cmd>--calendar</cmd> option to create a calendar dialog. Zenity returns the selected date to standard output. If no date is specified on the command line, the dialog uses the current date.
    </p>
    <p>
	The calendar dialog supports the following options:
    </p>

    <terms>

      <item>
        <title><cmd>--text</cmd>=<var>text</var></title>
	<p>Specifies the text that is displayed in the calendar dialog.</p>
      </item>
     	
      <item>
        <title><cmd>--day</cmd>=<var>day</var></title>
	<p>Specifies the day that is selected in the calendar dialog. day must be a number between 1 and 31 inclusive.</p>
      </item>

      <item>
        <title><cmd>--month</cmd>=<var>month</var></title>
	<p>Specifies the month that is selected in the calendar dialog. month must be a number between 1 and 12 inclusive.</p>
      </item>

      <item>
        <title><cmd>--year</cmd>=<var>year</var></title>
	<p>Specifies the year that is selected in the calendar dialog.</p>
      </item>

      <item>
        <title><cmd>--date-format</cmd>=<var>format</var></title>
	<p>Specifies the format that is returned from the calendar dialog after date selection. The default format depends on your locale. Format must be a format that is acceptable to the <cmd>strftime</cmd> function, for example <var>%A %d/%m/%y</var>.</p>
      </item>

    </terms>

    <p>
      The following example script shows how to create a calendar dialog:
    </p>

<code>
#!/bin/sh


if zenity --calendar \
--title="Select a Date" \
--text="Click on a date to select that date." \
--day=10 --month=8 --year=2004
  then echo $?
  else echo "No date selected"
fi
</code>


    <figure>
      <title>Calendar Dialog Example</title>
      <desc>Zenity calendar dialog example</desc>
      <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/zenity-calendar-screenshot.png"/>
   </figure>
</page>
