On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 10:10 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 10:26 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote: > I suspect it's because times in Posix (not evo or gnome or linux) are > referenced from a single point called the Epoch - aka 1st Jan 1970. All > time is measured as seconds from that point in an unsigned integer. > Time before that does not exist. :-) (and as an aside - time after 2038 > doesn't exist either) > > You have to remember that the birthday calendar thing was an add-on (in > fact a bounty) to the original calendaring application - and in a non- > historical calendar you don't need to add entries before 'now', and the > Evo calendar was probably never designed to be historical. I would > imagine that a quite extensive re-write would have to be done to make it > compatible with pre-1970 dates.
Then the calendar should be modified to allow birthdays with no year specified. (I'd like to see that anyway, since I know many people's birthdays, but not the year.) Lonnie Borntreger _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
