From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Entering Old Dates in the Date Time Prompt
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:05:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vduvpqno.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49181A59.4090609@manor-farm.org> (Ian Barton's message of "Mon\, 10 Nov 2008 11\:26\:17 +0000")
Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> writes:
> I am not sure if this counts as a bug. If I try to enter dates before
> 1970 in the prompt it defaults to the current year. I assume that this
> is to do with Unix dates starting in 1970. The reason for doing this
> is to enter some birth dates in org using the prompt.
Hi Ian,
I use the following entries for birthdays and they work great for me.
(Names and dates changed)
,----[ todo.org - tracking birthdays for the agenda ]
| * Birthdays
| %%(diary-anniversary 4 06 1952) Mickey (%d years old)
| %%(diary-anniversary 5 22 1984) Calvin (%d years old)
| %%(diary-anniversary 6 11 1926) Hobbes (%d years old)
`----
,----[ custom.el settings ]
| (custom-set-variables
| ...
| '(org-agenda-include-diary t)
| ...
| )
`----
-Bernt
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2008-11-10 11:26 Entering Old Dates in the Date Time Prompt Ian Barton
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