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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-bbdb-anniversaries gives error 'bad sexp'
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On Jun 13, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:

> thanks, got it working now (with some fiddling).
> 
> looks like `calendar-date-style' is not honored /at all/, if you don't
> use YYYY-MM-DD format (as stated in the org-bbdb.el header, admittedly),
> it just blows up in your face :)

While I think the org-bbdb code could be made more forgiving,
I strongly feel that calendar-date-style is an evil variable,
especially if it is applied to input.  One should never rely on it.

my 5c.

- Carsten