you can now unset the year of your birthday"

app/helpers/people_helper.rb

@@ -19,4 +19,12 @@ module PeopleHelper
       I18n.t "people.helper.people_on_pod_are_aware_of"
     end
   end
+
+  def birthday_format(bday)
+    if bday.year == 1000
+      bday.strftime("%B %d")
+    else
+      bday.strftime("%B %d %Y")
+    end
+  end
 end

app/models/profile.rb

@@ -88,10 +88,11 @@ class Profile
   end
 
   def date= params
-    if ['year', 'month', 'day'].all? { |key| params[key].present? }
+    params['year'] = '1000' if params['year'].blank?
+    if ['month', 'day'].all? { |key| params[key].present? }
       date = Date.new(params['year'].to_i, params['month'].to_i, params['day'].to_i)
       self.birthday = date
-    elsif ['year', 'month', 'day'].all? { |key| params[key] == '' }
+    elsif ['month', 'day'].all? { |key| params[key].blank? }
       self.birthday = nil
     end
   end

app/views/people/_profile_sidebar.html.haml

@@ -54,5 +54,4 @@
           - unless person.profile.birthday.blank?
             %h3 
               =t('.born')
-            = t('ago', :time => time_ago_in_words(person.profile.birthday)) if @person.profile.birthday
-
+            = birthday_format(person.profile.birthday)

config/locales/diaspora/en.yml

@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ en:
           edit_my_profile: "Edit my profile"
           bio: "bio"
           gender: "gender"
-          born: "born"
+          born: "birthday"
           in_aspects: "in aspects"
           cannot_remove: "Cannot remove %{name} from last aspect. (If you want to disconnect from this person you must remove contact.)"
           remove_from: "Remove %{name} from %{aspect}?"