Evolution, contacts, birthday and years earlier than 1970

[Sebastian Spiess]

I had a look at launchpad and at first I could not find something so I started a bugreport.

Before I could submit the report I was prompted for similarities to other bugs and I found three similar bugs.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/48679
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/109590
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/118418

gnome bugzilla has one as well: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339813

I subscribet to the launchpad bugs but what else can I do to? I don't have much exp with that...

Can some one help me with the fix they talk about?

Cheers
Sebastian


Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> 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