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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: How to specify birthdays?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 17:07:19 +0800
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Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:

> On Di, Mai 13, 2014 at 09:40:56 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Dominic Surano <sk8ingdom@gmail.com> writes:
>> Deadlines and schedules are generally for things that require an action
>> on your part, and thus will continue to show up in the agenda as
>> un-acted-upon if you don't do anything. Usually, for things like
>> birthdays, you just use a plain timestamp (no scheduled or deadline),
>> and then you can just see it coming in the usual org agenda. I don't
>> think there's any other way to give a specific warning about an upcoming
>> timestamp, though...
>
> Yeah, that seems to work better.
>
> But still no way for something like "Married %d years ago!" like its shown in
> the org-anniversary example on orgmode.org/manual/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html

Ah, for that you'll want (setq org-agenda-include-diary t). I assume you
don't have that set right now?