[Evolution] Bug#407127: evolution: Dates before 1970 not supported,
e.g. for birthdays
Gordon Jahn
gjahn at eee.strath.ac.uk
Tue Jan 16 12:04:05 UTC 2007
Package: evolution
Version: 2.6.3-3
Severity: normal
Whilst trying to add Personal Information to a contact in Evolution, I
wanted to enter a birthday, say 23rd February, 1956. On entering this,
in 23/02/1956 format, I get an error indicating I have used an "Invalid
Date Value". On entering 23/02/56 and then clicking on the arrow to the
right of the box to bring up the date selector, it defaults to 2056 and
obviously doesn't show the birthday in my calendar as it thinks that
today is before the person was born. On entering 23/02/1970 and using
the (pretty poor, but that's not the real problem) date selector to move
back 2 years at a time to get to 1956 (which, is correctly displayed as
1956) and then selecting the date on the selector, it enters 23/02/56 in
the box, which, upon using the selector again is back at 2056.
Not sure if this is an evolution bug or in a lib, but it's a bit
annoying. My mum can be 37 years old for now (although worryingly that
does mean she wasn't even a teenager when I was born).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii evolution-common 2.6.3-3 architecture independent files for
ii evolution-data-server 1.6.3-3 evolution database backend server
ii gconf2 2.16.0-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.14.2-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gtkhtml3.8 3.12.1-2 HTML rendering/editing library - b
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.15-2 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.15-2 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.15-2 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-5 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcamel1.2-8 1.6.3-3 The Evolution MIME message handlin
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libebook1.2-5 1.6.3-3 Client library for evolution addre
ii libecal1.2-6 1.6.3-3 Client library for evolution calen
ii libedataserver1.2-7 1.6.3-3 Utility library for evolution data
ii libedataserverui1.2-6 1.6.3-3 GUI utility library for evolution
ii libegroupwise1.2-10 1.6.3-3 Client library for accessing group
ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libexchange-storage1.2-1 1.6.3-3 Backend library for evolution cale
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.16.0-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.6.0-3 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-pilot2 2.0.15-0.1 Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-7 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.12.1-4 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2+b1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.2-4 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.4-1 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkhtml3.8-15 3.12.1-2 HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.2 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libnm-glib0 0.6.4-6 network management framework (GLib
ii libnotify1 0.4.3-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libnspr4-0d 1.8.0.8-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-0d 1.8.0.8-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.3-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpisock9 0.12.1-5 library for communicating with a P
ii libpisync0 0.12.1-5 synchronization library for PalmOS
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libsoup2.2-8 2.2.98-2 an HTTP library implementation in
ii libtasn1-3 0.3.6-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii evolution-plugins 2.6.3-3 standard plugins for Evolution
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.14.3-1 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
pn gnome-pilot-conduits <none> (no description available)
pn spamassassin <none> (no description available)
ii yelp 2.14.3-1 Help browser for GNOME 2
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