On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:15 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:09 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 02:32 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > > > b. If I set the birthday for a contact who is already in the addressbook > > > (but didnt have the birthday set previously), then the birthday doesnt > > > show up in the birthdays and anniversary. Well ... that is what I > > > thought. But actually it is getting set ... only on the day the person > > > was born. i.e. if the person was born in 1976, it shows up in the > > > calendar of that year ONLY. > > > So this is pretty weird. Does the birthday field stand for the persons > > > upcoming birthday or the day he/she was born? > > > > Can anyone confirm this behavior in FC3, so that I can file it as a bug? > > Or alternatively, can someone point out any mistake in my usage? > > I have noticed this and some other peculiarities on debian testing. > > Today I added several contacts to my address book, and I added the > birthday of several contacts as well. Most of them show up fine [1] but > for some contacts the birthday only shows up in the year of birth as > described by Sandip.
In one contact I just created along with the date of birth (in 1945), the corresponding birthday calendar entry shows that the entry is marked for every year since the same date in *1970*. Hope that gives some clues to the devs. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home: http://www.sandipb.net PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
