[Bug 282169] New: JJ: exported BDAY VCard field is too precise

[Tristan Miller]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282169

           Summary: JJ: exported BDAY VCard field is too precise
           Product: kaddressbook
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: psychonaut at nothingisreal.com
                CC: tokoe at kde.org


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

The "Personal" tab of the "Edit/New contact" dialog has a "Birthdate" field
which allows one to enter a year, month, and day date.  However, when the
contact is exported as a VCard, an arbitrary (and therefore probably incorrect)
time of day is appended.  Example:

BDAY:1958-01-20T00:00:00Z

Since the user did not specify the time of day for the birth, this value is
almost certainly incorrect.  RFC 2426 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt>
states that the BDAY field can omit the time if it is unknown or not desired. 
Example:

BDAY:1958-01-20

Since almost nobody knows or cares about indicating the time of birth in their
VCards, the simplest way to fix this bug is to simply have kaddressbook omit
the superfluous "T00:00:00Z" when exporting a contact.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new or edit and exist contact and add a birthdate.
2. Select the contact.
3. File->Export->Export vCard 3.0…
4. Enter a filename and save

Actual Results:  
5. The file contains a BDAY field which is too precise

Expected Results:  
5. The file should contain a BDAY field which specifies only the year, month,
and day.

This was previously reported for kab3 as Bug 118289.  It still exists with the
new KDE 4 address book.

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