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Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On 2016-07-14 14:09, Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> org-bbdb-anniversaries-future uses the following format to insert
>> anniversaries into the agenda:
>>
>> Birthday: [[bbdb:foo bar][foo bar (37th) -- 2016-07-14]]
>>
>> Seeing the date in the agenda makes me feel like I have a lot of time to
>> get a present. Then, just before the shops close, I realise that her
>> birthday is today ;).
>>
>> So I introduced a function that calculates the agenda entry with respect
>> to the time span between the actual event and the agenda date. This allows
>> to have entries like
>>
>> Birthday: [[bbdb:foo bar][foo bar (37th) -- 2016-07-14]]
>> Birthday: [[bbdb:foo bar][foo bar (37th) -- in 8 days]]
>> Birthday: [[bbdb:foo bar][foo bar (37th) -- tomorrow]]
>> Birthday: [[bbdb:foo bar][foo bar (37th) -- today]]
>>
>> The patch is attached to this posting.
>
> Sorry for reviving this old thread, but was this added to org? I would
> find it most useful.

+1