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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to specify birthdays?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 13:15:00 -0400
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Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:

> 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!

I don't use the diary at all: I keep anniversaries in BBDB.

See

  (info "(org) weekly/daily agenda")

for details.

Nick