Entering Old Dates in the Date Time Prompt

Entering Old Dates in the Date Time Prompt

[Ian Barton]

I am not sure if this counts as a bug. If I try to enter dates before 
1970 in the prompt it defaults to the current year. I assume that this 
is to do with Unix dates starting in 1970. The reason for doing this is 
to enter some birth dates in org using the prompt.

Ian.

Re: Entering Old Dates in the Date Time Prompt

[Bernt Hansen]

Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> writes:

> I am not sure if this counts as a bug. If I try to enter dates before
> 1970 in the prompt it defaults to the current year. I assume that this
> is to do with Unix dates starting in 1970. The reason for doing this
> is to enter some birth dates in org using the prompt.

Hi Ian,

I use the following entries for birthdays and they work great for me.

(Names and dates changed)

,----[ todo.org - tracking birthdays for the agenda ]
| * Birthdays
| %%(diary-anniversary 4 06 1952) Mickey (%d years old)
| %%(diary-anniversary 5 22 1984) Calvin (%d years old)
| %%(diary-anniversary 6 11 1926) Hobbes (%d years old)
`----

,----[ custom.el settings ]
| (custom-set-variables
|  ...
|  '(org-agenda-include-diary t)
|  ...
|  )
`----

-Bernt