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Re:Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to rep... by mxfh on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:39AM (#31919954)
At least german office culture knows of a quite popular 3-month format in a physical printed wall calendar, usually highlighting the current month and showing the preciding and following months with less contrast. They are distributed for free or very low cost as promotional product for any type of business.

From my understanding Bürokalender as in office calendar is often used synonymously for this format in Germany, which can be seen as an indicator to it's ubiquity.

The format seems not to be that popular, elsewhere but at least in the UK it's marketed as shipping calendar, which was the use case for what it was invented for in 1937 by B. C. Heye & Co., now terminic GmbH

https://www.terminic-uk.eu/company

There are even versions showing 4 to 6 Months in a vertical layout.

https://www.printas.com/en/4-month-calendar/

going up to eight months:

https://www.terminic.eu/monatskalender

Re:Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to rep... by sitting_duck on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @10:53AM (#31921006)
Really ubiquitous in German offices, in any industry. Thanks for letting me know where it came from.
Re:Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to rep... by mxfh on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:24PM (#31922338)
didn't know either, just found the history it by accident on the companies site. A bit more from Bremen:

https://www.wfb-bremen.de/de/page/stories/bremer-erfolgsgesc...

Re:Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to rep... by april_22 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:59AM (#31920186)
I find this layot very useful, especially with the little red square to see what day it is.
Re:Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to rep... by april_22 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:59AM (#31920190)
*layout
Re:Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to rep... by dolmen on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @10:25AM (#31920582)

    cal -3
Re:Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to rep... by ghusbands on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:44PM (#31923410)
The horizontal layout of cal doesn't have the same benefits.