Re: Bug 701708: Birthday not incorporating year

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Philip Withnall <philip withnall gmail com> wrote:
...
> > What I want to hear are opinion on whether birthday field in Contacts
> > should save the year or not. Why I'm asking for opinions in Spanish
> > "Cumpleaños" which is the translation some people use for birthday
> > means the day of the year you celebrate you birthday, The day of birth
> > on the other hand is translated different "Día de nacimiento", so I
> > understand people can understand different the meaning of the field.
>
> Internally, folks stores the day of birth (día de nacimiento), and this
> is what is exposed in the BirthdayDetails interface. Of course,
> gnome-contacts doesn't have to do the same, but that's what the
> underlying information means. :-)

And it makes sense, in the way that you often know the day in the year
when someone has a birthday, but not the year of their birth.

That said, it could be nice to have an optional year field - since in
some cases knowing that is useful. For example, for family members it
could help to know when significant birthdays are coming up (we'd also
need a good way to expose this information in the UI, of course).

Allan