Leap day

I was playing with my Birthday calendar to tidy things up after 
installing the new Lightning 0.8 RC2. Yes, yes, I have a sister who's a 
Leap day baby. How would one enter an all day event to denote the 
birthday of somebody born on Leap day?
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Optirectumitis - where the optic nerve gets crossed with the rectal 
nerve resulting in a crappy outlook on life.

none wrote:
> I just experimented with this and found that telling it to repeat 
> annually every 29th of February seems to work fine.  Go for a Custom 
> repeating schedule and it should be obvious from there.  Granted 
> though, the UIs terms of "annually" and "every 1 year"
are confusing 
> in this case, but then it is a special case.
Describe what you mean by fine. When I added on I got one only every 4 
years. Alas, I guess my sister wishes it was so but she still has a 
birthday on those non leap years.  :-(   So I would want this event to 
occur on  2/29 when there was a 2/29 and 2/28 when there wasn't a 2/29. 
Understand?
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Does fuzzy logic tickle?

I just experimented with this and found that telling it to repeat 
annually every 29th of February seems to work fine.  Go for a Custom 
repeating schedule and it should be obvious from there.  Granted though, 
the UIs terms of "annually" and "every 1 year" are confusing
in this 
case, but then it is a special case.

Max

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I was playing with my Birthday calendar to tidy things up after 
> installing the new Lightning 0.8 RC2. Yes, yes, I have a sister who's a 
> Leap day baby. How would one enter an all day event to denote the 

Stefan Sitter wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> Describe what you mean by fine. When I added on I got one only every 
>> 4 years. Alas, I guess my sister wishes it was so but she still has a 
>> birthday on those non leap years.  :-(   So I would want this event 
>> to occur on  2/29 when there was a 2/29 and 2/28 when there wasn't a 
>> 2/29. Understand?
> There seems to be a rather old discussion on how to handle 2/29 in 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160821>.
I think comment #10 says it all:

    This discussion has been continuing for 6 years now.  It does not
    appear to be that difficult of a situation and considering that we
    are now in another leap year it seems like a good time to get this
    fixed.

and later

    If the last day of February is desired then set a recurring rule for
    the last day of the month.

However I don't see any "last day of the month" option except on
monthly 
occurrence, which is is not correct for this situation.

-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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* Simon Paquet wrote, On 4/4/2008 13:28:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> 
>> and later
>>
>>    If the last day of February is desired then set a recurring rule
for
>>    the last day of the month.
>>
>> However I don't see any "last day of the month" option except
on monthly 
>> occurrence, which is is not correct for this situation.
> 
> I don't see a problem here. Just set it to "Last Day of the
Month" and
> let it recur every 12 months.
> 
> Simon

As Andrew pointed out in Lightning there is no option for "last day of 
the month." -- or are you suggesting it be set annually for the 28th of 
February?