[Evolution] Bugs in birthday handling

[Bram Mertens]

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 10:10 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 10:26 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 21:09 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 01.01.2005, 02:15 +0530 schrieb Sandip Bhattacharya: 
> > > > 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*.
> > [...]
> > > feel free to add comments to
> > > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44382. :-)
> > 
> > If I understand this correctly, all dates in evolution (or perhaps even
> > in gnome) should be between 1970 and 2039. Why is this?
> 
> 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.

Thanks for clearing that up. It does make me wonder about something
else, who is maintaining these bounties? Evo-developers or the original
author?

Is there a way to find out who is maintaining which parts of evo?

TIA

Bram
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