[kdepim-users] Mini-Y2K problem with dates in address book

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 01 January 2009 13:07, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 01 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 December 2008 23:21:42 JW wrote:
> > > I use Kontact. I don't know exactly which KDE application
> > > represents the addressbook part - KAddressbook maybe?
> >
> > kabc
>
> KAddressBook is the address book application that is also used in
> Kontact. kabc is the internal name for the address book backend which
> is used by KAddressBook and all other applications accessing the
> address book.
>
That makes sense

> > > Anyway, today I was looking up someone's anniversary and birthday
> > > and noticed that it was displacing a two digit year. I thought I'd
> > > made a mistake in entering it so I corrected both entries to a
> > > 4-digit year and saved it.
> > >
> > > When I reopened the contact's details to verify, it had reverted to
> > > two digit years.
> >
> > What distro and kontact-version is this?  In all versions I've used
> > birthdays and anniversaries are stored in korganizer.
>
> Unless you have entered the birthdays and anniversaries directly in
> KOrganizer they are stored in the address book. The birthdays are shown
> in KOrganizer if you enable the "Birthdays From KAddressBook" resource.
>
Ah - I forgot the Details birthday entry.  Sorry about that.

> > I've never
> > seen this problem - I would have thought that date display would
> > follow the general kde configuration rules set in systemsettings >
> > regional & language > country/region & language, Time & Dates tab
>
> This is correct. On my machine the birthdate is shown in the format
> YYYY-MM-DD, i.e. in the "Short date format" as specified in the above
> mentioned configuration dialog.
>
Anne
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