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 -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # debian testing kernel 2.6.8-1-686 i686 512MB RAM # # 15:20:37 up 15 days, 15:45, 12 users, load average: 0.15, 0.13, 0.15 # _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
