Comments on: Wrong Dates in iCal Birthday Calendar

By: Samuel

Samuel — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:27:03 +0000

Thanks! It works!

By: Semi

Semi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:12:09 +0000

I ran your script and now none of my dates in iCal will work. It won’t let me enter anything that lasts for longer than one day and it won’t allow me to put in the “day”, only the month and year - the same problem I have been having with birthdays.

By: Semi

Semi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:27:40 +0000

I ran your script but all I’m getting in Address Book is a place for the initial of the month (“M” for May e.g.) and then four digits of the year. Won’t let me enter a day and says all birthdays are on the first of the month. I’m on Leopard 10.5? Thanks!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:38:19 +0000

Thanks so much! I had the exact same problem. The problem is, after I ran your script, my dates were off by 17 days. I couldn’t figure out why. Anyway, that was still a big help. =)

By: frodo

frodo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:25:30 +0000

Hey Matt

Thanks for the excellent instructions! It worked, but I still find it strange that Apple doesn't address this issue more seriously along with the implementation flaw you described above. Anyways, thanks again!

frodo

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:56:05 +0000

frodo:

Copy the script to your clipboard
Open TextEdit (in your Applications folder)
Select Format > Make Plain Text from the menu bar
Paste in the script
Save the script to your home directory, naming it fixBirthdays . Uncheck If no extension is provided, use ".txt" in the save dialog.
Open Terminal (in the Utilities folder, under Applications)
Type python fixBirthdays and hit return.

That should do it.

By: frodo

frodo — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:29:58 +0000

Matthew, would you mind sharing how would someone like me, who is unfamiliar with Python, go about executing this script on Leopard?

Thanks,

Frodo