McWallaceAUT
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Q: Wrong Birthday with siri in macOS Sierra

When using Siri an my Imac (with macOS Sierra) and asking for a Birthday, the answer is always one day before as it should be. Asking for person "xy" with a birthday in contacts of the 24. of June it replys 23. of June.

 

I'm using the German Language pack of macOS Sierra and I'm located in Europe is this maybe a

timeserver issue?

 

p.s: asking siri on the iphone I get the correct answer....

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 27, 2016 3:18 AM

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Q: Wrong Birthday with siri in macOS Sierra

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  • by vaag,Helpful

    vaag vaag Oct 2, 2016 7:02 AM in response to McWallaceAUT
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    Mac OS X
    Oct 2, 2016 7:02 AM in response to McWallaceAUT

    Same problem here on a Dutch system, see: Siri's birthday one day off

  • by Luis Sequeira1,Helpful

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Oct 2, 2016 7:01 AM in response to McWallaceAUT
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    Mac OS X
    Oct 2, 2016 7:01 AM in response to McWallaceAUT

    It may a localization issue. I am in Portugal but my system is in English and I do NOT have the issue.

    I will try in Portuguese (not at my mac right now) and will let you know.

  • by troozers,

    troozers troozers Oct 3, 2016 1:07 AM in response to McWallaceAUT
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    Oct 3, 2016 1:07 AM in response to McWallaceAUT

    I have the exact same issue as well, and I am using English (UK) language and localisation is set to UK.  My iPhone and iPad report the correct birthday whilst MacOS reports all birthdays minus one day. 

     

    The stupid thing is - it pulls up a card with the contact information for the person you are asking for and the date shown in the correct day, but it speaks the wrong day.

  • by thombirch,

    thombirch thombirch Oct 4, 2016 12:48 AM in response to McWallaceAUT
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    Oct 4, 2016 12:48 AM in response to McWallaceAUT

    Same issue here. I'm in Australia. This is just happening on my Macbook Pro, Siri on all my other iOS devices is fine.

  • by mmm1974,

    mmm1974 mmm1974 Oct 12, 2016 9:35 PM in response to McWallaceAUT
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    Oct 12, 2016 9:35 PM in response to McWallaceAUT

    I am facing similar issues. I have figured out that SIRI speaks correct birthdays only if you have selected a Western Time-zone (i.e any time zone west of Greenwich...Say for example New York or Brazil). I initially thought that it is happening since my time zone (which is New Delhi) is on a different date than American time zone (specifically US-Pacific time). But that is not the case. It doesn't matter whether local date is same as the US date. The only thing that matter is the Time-Zone. Try changing the time-zone to any Western Time zone and you will see that SIRI has started to speak correct birthdays. I think it is some kind of bug in OS. Trying to figure out. Hope to find an answer soon.