Enter Address Book birthday info via relative dates

Oct 12, '05 07:07:00AM

Contributed by: jmil

In Tiger's Address Book (not sure about previous versions), you can enter the current person's birthday into their vcard using words only, not dates.

For example, let's say today is Monday, October 10, 2005. In the birthday field, if you enter "today" and then tab out or click outside that field, his birthday will be set to October 10, 2005. You can also enter "next Monday" and his birthday will be set to October 17, 2005. You can also enter "last Sunday" or "yesterday," and his birthday will be set to October 9, 2005. Of course, "tomorrow" works as well to set his birthday to the 11th.

Unfortunately, strings like: "tomorrow he will be 26" do not set the birthday to October 11, 1979. You will still have to edit the year manually. However, this will probably still save you a few keystrokes. Here's to hoping even better parsing will be available in future versions.

[robg adds: I tried a few other words, but only had success with "last year," which does what you might expect. This also works in 10.3.]

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