Wrong Dates in iCal Birthday Calendar
To keep track of people's birthdays, I use Mac OS X's Birthday Calendar feature of Address Book/iCal. I was going through my calendar the other day, and I noticed that a birthday which I knew was sometime in January wasn't showing up. It was on the corresponding Address Book contact, though. I deleted the birthday from this contact and reentered it, which fixed that entry, but on the suspicion that more birthdays might be missing, I flipped through my calendar and found: The Address Book birthday field has the misfeature that it forces a year to be specified. What a rude thing for Address Book to be asking! Anyway, I'd arbitrarily picked year 1 for the year for any contacts whose birth years I didn't know. Maybe, I thought, the Gregorian reform was throwing things off. However, changing the year to 1900 didn't help matters, and in fact made them worse: Turning the birthday calendar off (which wipes out iCal's backing store for the calendar) an