Re: diary-anniversary doesn'work om Mac osx 12.6.3

[Ihor Radchenko]

Renato Pontefice <renato.pontefice@gmail.com> writes:

> * Anniversaries
> %%(diary-anniversary 1948 01 30) Arthur's birthday (%d years old)
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 2023-01-30) Arthur's birthday (%d years old)
>
>  <2023-01-30 Mon 15:53>
> Just this. The last line is made by C-u-c .
> To display the way my date are setted
>
> If I press C a a
> Emacs compose the agenda (as in the attached file, but without the entry of 
> Arthur birthday

I tried the above and can hear error being signalled:

Bad sexp at line 4 in /tmp/bug.org: (let ((entry Arthur's birthday (%d years 
old)) (date '(1 30 2023))) (diary-anniversary 2023-01-30))
Bad sexp at line 4 in /tmp/bug.org: (let ((entry Arthur's birthday (%d years 
old)) (date '(1 31 2023))) (diary-anniversary 2023-01-30))
Bad sexp at line 4 in /tmp/bug.org: (let ((entry Arthur's birthday (%d years 
old)) (date '(2 1 2023))) (diary-anniversary 2023-01-30))
Bad sexp at line 4 in /tmp/bug.org: (let ((entry Arthur's birthday (%d years 
old)) (date '(2 2 2023))) (diary-anniversary 2023-01-30))
Bad sexp at line 4 in /tmp/bug.org: (let ((entry Arthur's birthday (%d years 
old)) (date '(2 3 2023))) (diary-anniversary 2023-01-30))
Bad sexp at line 4 in /tmp/bug.org: (let ((entry Arthur's birthday (%d years 
old)) (date '(2 4 2023))) (diary-anniversary 2023-01-30))
Bad sexp at line 4 in /tmp/bug.org: (let ((entry Arthur's birthday (%d years 
old)) (date '(2 5 2023))) (diary-anniversary 2023-01-30))

Your diary entries have wrong format.

If you do <f1> f diary-anniversary <RET>, you will see

(diary-anniversary MONTH DAY &optional YEAR MARK)

So, the correct entries will be

%%(diary-anniversary 01 30 1948) Arthur's birthday (%d years old)

%%(diary-anniversary 01 30 2023) Arthur's birthday (%d years old)

org-anniversary uses more conventional year-month-day order:

%%(org-anniversary 1948 01 30) Arthur's birthday (%d years old)

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