Toby, I complete agree with your view. I'm not sure which of the three options that I will take and certainly not a too early year. Thanks for the confirmation.
-ray On 7/31/07, Toby A Inkster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ray Daly wrote: > > > But in my view birthday is only month and date because it repeats > > every year. And some people don't want to disclose their year of birth > > but do want to celebrate their birthday. (eg 19 June). > > As vCalendar doesn't allow any syntax to specify a date without a year, > you have three choices: > > 1. Don't use hCalendar to record the birthday; > 2. Record the year, even if people don't want you to; or > 3. Use an implausible year, e.g. AD 1800 or AD 2500. > > (If using option #3, make sure you don't choose a year so far back in time > that it pushes you into the Julian calendar. All hell will break loose.) > > -- > Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS > [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux] > [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 40 days, 14:21.] > > demiblog 0.2.2 Released > http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/07/29/demiblog-0.2.2/ > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > -- Blog- http://www.abcedmindedness.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
