[Evolution] Bugs in birthday handling

[Sivaiah Nallagatla]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 02:32 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> I have been searching in bugzilla for bugs that I found with the
> handling of birthdays, but the nearest I found (for [1] below) was
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=53885 which is shown as
> fixed.
> 
> I am using Evolution 2.0.2 on FC3. I see the following two problems
> right now.
> a. If I click on an existing contact with no birthday set and then click
> on the personal information tab, and then specify the birthday, ... the
> Ok button doesnt become enabled. However, if I shift to the first tab
> "contact" the ok button becomes enabled so that I can save the change.
> Surely this is a bug which is still to be fixed.

You can a file bug for this.

> 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. 

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=71592 is the bug for this

Siva

> So this is pretty weird. Does the birthday field stand for the persons
> upcoming birthday or the day he/she was born?
> 
> - Sandip
> 
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