From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
Cc: Orgmode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-contacts and dates before 1970
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 19:03:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipt2ipdg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimPfjSVk1NE3hz+Qv6wDmokv1mwrw@mail.gmail.com> (Le Wang's message of "Mon, 23 May 2011 00:19:57 +0800")
Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to specify birthdays without year? I often want to jot
>>>> down someone's birthday so I'm not surprised next year, but don't want
>
>>>> to ask them how old they are. :)
>>>
>>> Not really :(
>>
>> Fair enough. I'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.
This is probably related to the same problem as discussed in this
thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206
on the limitations of unix time (whether on Unix or not...).
--
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.288.gcec8.dirty)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-22 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-22 16:19 org-contacts and dates before 1970 Le Wang
2011-05-22 18:03 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-05-23 12:05 ` Le Wang
2011-05-23 18:26 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-08-22 11:59 ` Christoph Lange
2011-11-03 13:29 ` Christoph LANGE
2011-12-28 16:36 ` Bastien
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