From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Entering Old Dates in the Date Time Prompt Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:05:47 -0500 Message-ID: <87vduvpqno.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: <49181A59.4090609@manor-farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzYKu-0003MD-PI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:05:52 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzYKu-0003M1-7F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:05:52 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56522 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzYKu-0003Ly-3p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:05:52 -0500 Received: from mho-02-bos.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.179]:57005) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KzYKu-0000xC-0l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:05:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49181A59.4090609@manor-farm.org> (Ian Barton's message of "Mon\, 10 Nov 2008 11\:26\:17 +0000") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ian Barton Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Ian Barton 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