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More eagle-eyed Mac users will have spotted the significance of today; July 17th. For those who haven’t, Mac OS X’s calendar application, iCal, always displays that date in the Dock, until it is started for the first time in that session, at which point it updates to the current date. Today, then, is the only day on which starting it up won’t change the design of the icon.
Why it always says July 17th is up for debate. Conventional wisdom is that it is simply the date on which it was first released, or at least the date on which the icon is designed. However, I did hear a story that it marks the unfortunate day on which Steve Jobs ran down a hobo in his car.
No doubt that one was started by a disgruntled Windows user.
The version of iCal that ships with the Mac is, of course, the one produced by Apple. It maintains its own pages on the product here. However, there is a much older calendaring application also called iCal, which runs under Unix and can be found here.
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