Exchange Birthday Shifted by 1 day

I have Time Zone support enabled AND the correct time zone selected. I've tried syncing it both ways.

To clarify: The wrong date is showing up in the CONTACT entry and NOT the calendar. All of my calendar entries are correct. Outlook has created an annual recurring event for their birthday and this shows up on the correct day in the calendar. However, on the Contact Birthday field the birthday has been shifted. I am NOT experiencing any hour shifts in my calendar appointments or anything. It appears to simply be birthdays in the contacts. If I correct it on the iPhone, it becomes wrong on outlook and vice versa. Oddly enough, anniversaries which are listed in my contacts are listed CORRECTLY! It's just the birthdays. I'd be more okay with this if it were making me younger by a day, but it is making me older, and that's not cool. 😉

--Michael

I have not seen any daylight savings time option anywhere on the iphone.

m

Let me make this even weirder... SOME of my contacts are actually correct. But SOME are not. no pattern yet. I just noticed that a few were correct so I am not looking for some clue or pattern.

m

Hi Mark,

Mind saying who your exchange provider is? It'd be nice to know if it's everyone or just some providers. A previous poster had the same provider (1and1.com) as me..

best,
m

I have found the pattern of the incorrect birthdays in the contacts. It is a daylight savings issue.

In 2008, daylight time begins on March 9 and ends on November 2. ALL my birthday from March 10-November 2 (INCLUSIVE of end points which I have friends with birthdays on...) are WRONG (they are listed as 1 day earlier)! The rest, as far as I have checked (and I have a ton of friends I'd have to check) are CORRECT!

Now the symptoms are clear and a culprit has been spotted. Now a solution please? I hate daylight savings time... it has caused so many problems to inept programmers and problem solvers everywhere.

Best,
Michael

Message was edited by: G. Michael Guy. Small typo corrected.

Everything I have has every available update installed on it that i know of. On my windows mobile everything was correct too. it's just wrong in apple's mobileme, apple's address book and apple's iphone... i tried switching everything to all apple products to see if it'd be better, but it's still broke.

i've dumped exchange for the weekend (and probably for good) to use mobileme, but the birthday issue did not resolve itself. again, this is in the CONTACT entry and not the calendar entries.

m

No way it is a coincidence that it is EXACTLY the daylight savings time period that is messed up. it IS a DST issue. case closed. now what's the solution? I guess i can change allll my friends' birthdays, but grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr on that.

m