Re: Date/Birthday fields and LDAP schemas

On 11/25/2008 11:04, Anton Bobrov wrote:
>
> Evolution project has this schema of their own
>
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution-data-server/trunk/addressbook/backends/ldap/evolutionperson.schema?view=markup

Thanks for the pointer, I've just done some digging and they seem to 
accept YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD into birthDate

> and there is also Sun Messaging Server and Calendar Server schema
>
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4437/anobm?a=view
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4437/6n6jckqrt?a=view

This is YYYYMMDD on field dateOfBirth

> these are the ones i know that define date of birth and similar
> additional data. worth having a look and supporting but neither
> is standard. Microsoft must have something similar of their own
> defined as well.

schac (as pointed to by Michael's email) also uses YYYYMMDD and calls it 
schacDateOfBirth.

Then remembering openLDAP has some schemas installed. I've also found:

apple.schema:

attributetype (
         1.3.6.1.4.1.63.1000.1.1.1.1.27
         NAME ( 'apple-birthday' )
         DESC 'Birthday'
         EQUALITY generalizedTimeMatch
         SUBSTR caseExactIA5SubstringsMatch
         SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.24 SINGLE-VALUE )

The microsoft schmeas only appear to have birthLocation. I also can't 
find anything searching on the web.

At the moment I'm very tempted to go with YYYYMMDD in a NumberString, 
and probably default to dateOfBirth, but allow birthDate and 
schacDateOfBirth by default.

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