bug#644: 23.0.60; diary-anniversary failure

bug#644: 23.0.60; diary-anniversary failure

[Edward M. Reingold]

>>>>> "EW" == Eythan Weg <weg@indiscrete.org> writes:

    EW> emacs -Q M-: (setq diary-file "~/dd")
    EW> the content of dd is:
    EW> %%(diary-anniversary 11 14 2008) Y's Birthday %%(diary-anniversary 1
    EW> 14 2008) X's Birthday

    EW> Start the calendar.  Check the diary for the two dates.  The first
    EW> anniversary fails to show.  The second works.

Where is the cursor (what date)?  The 0th anniversary will never appear.
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bug#644: 23.0.60; diary-anniversary failure

[Eythan Weg]

Makes sense.  I have not noticed my error because
normally I know the start year.  My error stemmed
from using the menu to insert an anniversary while
the cursor in the calendar buffer is on the
correct day and month of the current year (the
current year because the correct year was not
known, a common occurrence in regard to age).

Would it be wrong to allow future birth days in
diary-anniversary, so past and future are
symmetric?

Thank you.

Eythan Weg

reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu (Edward M. Reingold)
04 Aug 2008 16:31:57 -0500

   >>>>> "EW" == Eythan Weg <weg@indiscrete.org> writes:
   
       EW> emacs -Q M-: (setq diary-file "~/dd")
       EW> the content of dd is:
       EW> %%(diary-anniversary 11 14 2008) Y's Birthday %%(diary-anniversary 1
       EW> 14 2008) X's Birthday
   
       EW> Start the calendar.  Check the diary for the two dates.  The first
       EW> anniversary fails to show.  The second works.
   
   Where is the cursor (what date)?  The 0th anniversary will never appear.
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   Professor Edward M. Reingold                Email: reingold@iit.edu
   Department of Computer Science              Voice: (312) 567-3309
   Illinois Institute of Technology            Fax:   (312) 567-5067
   Stuart Building, 228F
   10 West 31st Street
   Chicago, IL  60616-3729  U.S.A.

bug#644: diary-anniversary to optionally show "negative" anniversaries for future events

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg) writes:

> Makes sense.  I have not noticed my error because
> normally I know the start year.  My error stemmed
> from using the menu to insert an anniversary while
> the cursor in the calendar buffer is on the
> correct day and month of the current year (the
> current year because the correct year was not
> known, a common occurrence in regard to age).
>
> Would it be wrong to allow future birth days in
> diary-anniversary, so past and future are
> symmetric?

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I'm not sure I understand the problem here.  As far as I can tell, it's
fine to insert a future birthday.  I tried:

%%(diary-anniversary 12 14 2021) X's Birthday 

And then the 14th of December 2022 had that date marked.  (We're not
marking the 0th anniversary.)

But I may be misunderstanding what this report is about.  Do you have a
recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", that demonstrates the problem?

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bug#644: diary-anniversary to optionally show "negative" anniversaries for future events

[Michael Heerdegen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'm not sure I understand the problem here.  As far as I can tell, it's
> fine to insert a future birthday.

And when you don't know the year `diary-anniversary' expressions work
without specifying a year too (since Emacs 22 or so).

Michael.

bug#644: diary-anniversary to optionally show "negative" anniversaries for future events

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure I understand the problem here.  As far as I can tell, it's
>> fine to insert a future birthday.
>
> And when you don't know the year `diary-anniversary' expressions work
> without specifying a year too (since Emacs 22 or so).

I see.  Then I guess there's nothing to do here in this bug report, and
I'm closing it.  (If this is a mistake, please respond to the debbugs
address and we'll reopen.)

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