From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Groth <cwg@falma.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-bbdb: anniversaries with unknown years
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:34:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A37ACA4-DE3B-4745-A1FC-98ED62A53982@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ocujqvm.fsf@falma.de>
On Oct 10, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to keep birthdays and similar dates in bbdb and have them
> shown
> in my org mode agenda views. Often, however, I do not know the year
> of
> an anniversary, and in the case of my acquaintances the year of a
> personal anniversary is often not meaningful (e.g. name days,
> popular in
> some countries).
>
> The solution that came to my mind was to update org-bbdg.el to also
> accept dates in the format MM-DD. org-bbdb-anniv-extract-date would
> then substitute nil for unknown years. The remaining code would make
> sure that "unknown" is substituted for unknown `years'.
>
> That solution seems fine, however it would break compatibility with
> the
> old format of org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist, as this assumes
> that a
> numerical value of `years' is always defined.
>
> Before writing a patch, I would like to ask for opinions on this.
I am not sure if there are nay other tools which make use of birthdays
in bbdb.
I would such an extension useful.
- Carsten
>
> Cheers
> Christoph
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-10 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-10 10:15 org-bbdb: anniversaries with unknown years Christoph Groth
2010-10-10 10:34 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-10 11:16 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-10 11:26 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-10 11:57 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-25 16:33 ` Thomas Baumann
2011-02-07 11:43 ` [PATCH] org-bbdb: allow " Christoph Groth
2011-02-08 15:57 ` [Accepted] " Bastien Guerry
2011-02-08 15:58 ` [PATCH] " Bastien
2011-02-08 16:05 ` Thomas Baumann
2011-02-09 14:42 ` Christoph Groth
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