Evolution, contacts, birthday and years earlier than 1970

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Sebastian Spiess <sebastian.spiess at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am setting up my contacts including birthdays so that evolution puts them
> automatically into the calendar. This works fine for birthdays before 1970,
> but for years before 1970 the reminder ends up in december.

UNIX measures time in seconds from the 'epoch' - 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 
1970[1]. This should be totally transparent to the end-user, so the fact that 
Evolution cannot handle pre-epoch dates correctly is a sign of a bug. I 
suggest that you look into the Launchpad bugs database to see if this has 
been reported. If not, file a bug report.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time



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