Re: [Evolution] Bugs in birthday handling

[Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>]

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 03:21 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 10:10 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 10:26 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:
> > I suspect it's because times in Posix (not evo or gnome or linux) are
> > referenced from a single point called the Epoch - aka 1st Jan 1970.  All
> > time is measured as seconds from that point in an unsigned integer.
> > Time before that does not exist. :-)  (and as an aside - time after 2038
> > doesn't exist either)
> >
> > You have to remember that the birthday calendar thing was an add-on (in
> > fact a bounty) to the original calendaring application - and in a non-
> > historical calendar you don't need to add entries before 'now', and the
> > Evo calendar was probably never designed to be historical.  I would
> > imagine that a quite extensive re-write would have to be done to make it
> > compatible with pre-1970 dates.
>
> Then the calendar should be modified to allow birthdays with no year
> specified.  (I'd like to see that anyway, since I know many people's
> birthdays, but not the year.)

I guess that should be the "contacts" should be modified to allow
birthdays with no year specified, and the calendar should be modified to
handle that.

Lonnie Borntreger