Re: org-bbdb: anniversaries with unknown years

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Groth <cwg@falma.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-bbdb: anniversaries with unknown years
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:34:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A37ACA4-DE3B-4745-A1FC-98ED62A53982@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ocujqvm.fsf@falma.de>

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

>
> Cheers
> Christoph
>
>
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