Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > On Oct 10, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to keep birthdays and similar dates in bbdb and have them >> shown >> in my org mode agenda views. Often, however, I do not know the year >> of >> an anniversary, and in the case of my acquaintances the year of a >> personal anniversary is often not meaningful (e.g. name days, >> popular in >> some countries). >> >> The solution that came to my mind was to update org-bbdg.el to also >> accept dates in the format MM-DD. org-bbdb-anniv-extract-date would >> then substitute nil for unknown years. The remaining code would make >> sure that "unknown" is substituted for unknown `years'. >> >> That solution seems fine, however it would break compatibility with >> the >> old format of org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist, as this assumes >> that a >> numerical value of `years' is always defined. >> >> Before writing a patch, I would like to ask for opinions on this. > > I am not sure if there are nay other tools which make use of birthdays > in bbdb. > > I would such an extension useful. > > - Carsten
++ on that one. I get funny looks when asking friends what year they were born in. Not least because I refuse to capitulate to the FaceBook masses. org-mode might be referred to, jokingly, as Borg-mode in #emacs but faceBook is a far more powerful force for evil ..... _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
