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From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Add anniversary and org-mode
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To: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
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Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> It turned out that anniversaries simply do
>> not show up on the starting date :-; 
>
> Now that you mention this...  I can't remember my parents gave me a
> birthday present for my 0th birthday!  That's unfair.

Ha!

But its a bit of a misnomer since you can use

Jun 12 Richard's Birthday

for a repeat calendar item - fine. But then you lose the %d
functionality available in:

%%(diary-anniversary 3 19 2008) Julien's daughter turns %d !