From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Le Wang Subject: Re: org-contacts and dates before 1970 Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 00:19:57 +0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOBNn-0000vg-7F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 22 May 2011 12:19:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOBNm-0001SJ-B2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 22 May 2011 12:19:59 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:42928) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOBNm-0001SC-7n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 22 May 2011 12:19:58 -0400 Received: by vws4 with SMTP id 4so4659534vws.0 for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 09:19:57 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Orgmode Mailing List , Julien Danjou On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Le Wang wrote: >>> Is it possible to specify birthdays without year? =A0I often want to jo= t >>> down someone's birthday so I'm not surprised next year, but don't want >>> to ask them how old they are. =A0:) >> >> Not really :( > > Fair enough. =A0I'll use 1900 as a place holder for now. I'm seeing another issue now, where if any org contact has a birthday pre 1970, I get the error "Bad sexp at line xxx ...". Does this work for anyone else? I'm on Windows 7 runing native build of Emacs CVS and 23.2.1. My org-mode is less than a week old. --=20 Le