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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: org-bbdb: anniversaries with unknown years
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:26:53 +0200
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On Oct 10, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Richard Riley wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Oct 10, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'd like to keep birthdays and similar dates in bbdb and have them
>>> shown
>>> in my org mode agenda views.  Often, however, I do not know the year
>>> of
>>> an anniversary, and in the case of my acquaintances the year of a
>>> personal anniversary is often not meaningful (e.g. name days,
>>> popular in
>>> some countries).
>>>
>>> The solution that came to my mind was to update org-bbdg.el to also
>>> accept dates in the format MM-DD.  org-bbdb-anniv-extract-date would
>>> then substitute nil for unknown years.  The remaining code would  
>>> make
>>> sure that "unknown" is substituted for unknown `years'.
>>>
>>> That solution seems fine, however it would break compatibility with
>>> the
>>> old format of org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist, as this assumes
>>> that a
>>> numerical value of `years' is always defined.
>>>
>>> Before writing a patch, I would like to ask for opinions on this.
>>
>> I am not sure if there are nay other tools which make use of  
>> birthdays
>> in bbdb.
>>
>> I would such an extension useful.
>>
>> - Carsten
>
>
> ++ on that one. I get funny looks when asking friends what year they
> were born in. Not least because I refuse to capitulate to the FaceBook
> masses. org-mode might be referred to, jokingly, as Borg-mode in  
> #emacs

:-)  Is that so???