From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Lange Subject: Re: org-contacts and dates before 1970 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:59:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87ipt2ipdg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: langec@web.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvT9q-0008CX-Ej for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:59:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvT9p-0002P8-B2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:59:10 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f44.google.com ([209.85.210.44]:46141) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvT9o-0002P1-UZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:59:09 -0400 Received: by pzk36 with SMTP id 36so10256035pzk.17 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:59:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ipt2ipdg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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: Le Wang , Orgmode Mailing List Dear all, please allow me to follow up on this mail with the question of how this is really done. On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 20:03, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Le Wang writes: >> 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 ...". =C2=A0Does this wo= rk >> for anyone else? >> =E2=80=A6 > > This is probably related to the same problem as discussed in this > thread: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206 I had the same problem and studied that thread, but still I have no idea of what to put into the BIRTHDAY field of an org-contact. It must be something like :BIRTHDAY: %%(=E2=80=A6) but what expression do I have to use? I tried something like %%(org-date 2011 08 22), but that does not work (same error: "Bad sexp") Cheers, and thanks in advance for any help, Christoph --=20 Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, ICQ# 5119183= 3