Open samdmarshall opened 7 years ago
There actually is a way to deal with that in the standard, e.g., BDAY:--0415
. I'm somewhat hesitant to support non-standard additions like this.
My understanding is that only works for vcards using the 4.0 spec, not prior. I opened an issue on khard
about this as well. The general consensus seems to be not wanting to support non-standard additions (which i totally understand and agree with).
Oops, you are totally right, that really only works for vcard 4.0. Perhaps we should work around this issue therefore.
+1
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
BDAY:1977-12-08
...
This birthday is not recognized. Also in documentation, there is:
If set to birthdays khal will expect a VCARD collection and extract birthdays from those VCARDS, that is only files with .ics extension will be considered, all other files will be ignored...
Is it realy .ics extension for VCARDS, not .vcf??? Thanks.
Nope, this is an error in the documentation, thanks for spotting it.
actually this has been fixed before (the vcf issue).
hi, checking in to see status of this. i came across the problem again yesterday with khal claiming it was a friend of mine’s 416th birthday; is the only option here to make a workaround when this value is missing the year?
I have a bunch of contacts that I have birthdays stored for without their birth-year attached in my iCloud account. Apparently the way that Apple handles this is by exporting the VCF as the following:
This works fine in Apple's software, but not so much when attaching this to
khal
, as it will display their birth-year as 1604 (and thus, such contacts will be display as having their 413th birthday this year). I assume that Apple does this as a work-around to the official spec, and that there is no proper way to handle a date without a year attached to it. Sincekhal
supports search a directory of.vcf
files to get the birth date for each contact, is there a way to just have it display as"Jane Smith's Birthday"
rather than"Jane Smith's 413th Birthday"
?Thanks.