On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 11:44 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
On mån, 2014-04-07 at 09:54 +0100, Allan Day wrote: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).I know *I* would like the year set because i keep forgetting how old people are and whether any particular birthday has a specific significance (i.e. like 30 or 40). That said, this is often not the case and we should cooperate with other folks users so that we can store the day only (by making up some date) such that others can display it right (without the year if that is not set).
Yup, that sounds like a use case which folks doesn’t really cater for at the moment, but should. There’s a bug report already open about times of birth in folks, and I’ve just mentioned years of birth on it: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684905. Philip
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