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From: Benjamin Andresen <benny@in-ulm.de>
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Hey,

Fredrik <fredrik@jumans.net> writes:

> I'm using a normal org-file as my contact register so I easier can
> link tasks to a specific person. I have also added events as birthdays
> to each contact but is there some way I can make them show up in the
> agenda with some yearly calculations?
>
> For example a simple birthday reminder can look like this:
>
> * <2006-12-30 ++1y> Happy Birthday!
>
> Is there some clever way I can add a date calculation to it when it
> shows up in the agenda?
>
> * <2006-12-30 ++1y> Happy Birthday %d years!

I used to do it the way it was done in the manual:

(info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda")
under Calendar/Diary integration

     %%(diary-anniversary 14  5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old

I now use bbdb which also works good and has gnus integration which is
important to me.


> Regards,
>
> Fredrik

br,
benny