carnagion/birthbot

A Discord bot for keeping track of birthdays.

👋 Hi, I'm Indraneel

• I'm a computer science student 💻
• I'm interested in functional programming, type theory, and artificial intelligence 🤖
• I'm also a musician 🎸

birthbot's Issues

Next function

hi could you add a function to get the next n birthdays.

syntax maybe: /birthday next

Birthdays not being announced

Birthdays are not being announced at all, even though the bot is not offline. The cause for this is currently unknown.

The last known announcement was on 3rd September 2023.

List function

Would be good to have a list function for the bot to check who has the next birthday

Off-by-one error when calculating age

The age calculation used when announcing a user's birthday appears to have an off-by-one error, leading the age to be displayed as one less than the actual age.

Incorrect output when using `birthday next`

The birthday next command produces incorrect output.

The cause is that when sorting birthdays, their original years are used, which leads to them being sorted according to years first, then months, then days.
The intended behaviour is for birthdays to be sorted according to months and days only.

A possible fix would be to map() the birthdays to dates with the current year and UTC timezone before sorting them, though this would result in the allocation of another Vec<DateTime<Utc>>.