GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 559027
Evolution: Clicking in a contact's "anniversary" or "birthday" field, without changing anything, sets the date to today
Last modified: 2009-03-02 05:09:23 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1) Open Evolution 2.22.3.1, and create a new contact. 2) Go to the "Personal information" tab. 3) Click in the "Anniversary" field (it should say "none" by default). 4) Change nothing, type nothing. 5) Click outside the field (e.g. click in the "Notes" field). 6) Observe that the anniversary date changed to today's date, without the user making any changes. Same problem happens on the birthday field. What should happen: * Field does not change unless the user actually modifies the field (e.g. by typing a date, or picking a date from the calendar picker widget). Reproducible: Yes, always. Other information:
Works fine for me in 2.24.1 as well as in 2.22.2
Hmm, definitely still happening at this end, but it gives me hope that it's working okay at your end, so it could just be something that goes away with a version upgrade. I'm planning to upgrade to Gnome 2.24 / Evolution 2.24 / Ubuntu 8.10 in about 2 weeks time - so I'll retry it in Evolution 2.24 then and will report back here whether or not it's still happening in that later version.
I have upgraded a laptop today to Gnome & Evolution 2.24.1, and the problem happens there too. The laptop is an x86, and the desktop is an AMD64, so different platform, different computers, different versions of gnome / evolution / kernel, but same problem. I have captured a 16-second ogg video of the problem, link is: http://files.nickj.org/Evolution/Contacts-Birthday-anniversary-problem.ogv Note that in this video that I did not press any keys or do anything other than click in the fields, and that doing this was enough to get it to change to today's date.
Justed test on my main desktop after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 & Evolution 2.24.3 - still happens when following the "steps to reproduce".
Happens to me too on Ubuntu 8.10 / Evolution 2.24.3
Created attachment 129314 [details] [review] proposed evo patch for evolution; I can reproduce on actual trunk, and I do not know why it worked fine for Akhil, very strange to me.
Seems fine to stable/trunk
Committed to trunk. Committed revision 37323. Committed to gnome-2-24. Committed revision 37324.
Thank you!