Re: [Evolution] Bugs in birthday handling

[Sandip Bhattacharya <sandip lug-delhi org>]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:15 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:09 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 02:32 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> > > b. If I set the birthday for a contact who is already in the addressbook
> > > (but didnt have the birthday set previously), then the birthday doesnt
> > > show up in the birthdays and anniversary. Well ... that is what I
> > > thought. But actually it is getting set ... only on the day the person
> > > was born. i.e. if the person was born in 1976, it shows up in the
> > > calendar of that year ONLY. 
> > > So this is pretty weird. Does the birthday field stand for the persons
> > > upcoming birthday or the day he/she was born?
> >
> > Can anyone confirm this behavior in FC3, so that I can file it as a bug?
> > Or alternatively, can someone point out any mistake in my usage?
>
> I have noticed this and some other peculiarities on debian testing.
>
> Today I added several contacts to my address book, and I added the
> birthday of several contacts as well. Most of them show up fine [1] but
> for some contacts the birthday only shows up in the year of birth as
> described by Sandip.

In one contact I just created along with the date of birth (in 1945),
the corresponding birthday calendar entry shows that the entry is marked
for every year since the same date in *1970*.

Hope that gives some clues to the devs.

- Sandip

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