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From: Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to specify birthdays?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 09:07:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140513070751.GC18283@raven.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140513T001847-887@post.gmane.org>

On Mo, Mai 12, 2014 at 10:22:02 +0000, Dominic Surano wrote:
> Make it a deadline instead of a SCHEDULED item and set it to the current 
> year with the +1y modifier. That way it will only come up a few days before 
> it's due.
> 
> * Calendar
> ** Birthdays
> *** Somebody
>     DEADLINE: <2014-05-12 Tue +1y>

By setting it to the current year, I'd loose track of the original year when
the event happened.
I _really_ like the idea of "XXX is %d years old", like it is shown in the
org-anniversary example!

-- 
Josef Wolf
jw@raven.inka.de

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-13  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-12 21:42 How to specify birthdays? Josef Wolf
2014-05-12 22:22 ` Dominic Surano
2014-05-13  1:40   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-13  7:24     ` Josef Wolf
2014-05-13  9:07       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-13 11:17         ` Josef Wolf
2014-05-13 13:32           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-13  7:07   ` Josef Wolf [this message]
2014-05-13 17:15     ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-12 22:54 ` Erik Iverson

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