Exchange Birthday Shifted by 1 day

I'm away from home so I haven't updated iTunes.
Has anyone successfully synced outlook through iTunes without this birthday issue? Has the update fixed the problem. I understand exchange still doesn't work but does the iTunes approach work?

How does this affect MobileMe Users?

Do I need to break sync associations with MobileMe, re-sync Itunes and outlook, then re-enable MobileMe or have you changed whatever you changed in Itunes also in MobileMe?

It works - at least when performing synch using USB cable & itunes.

New records are appearing correctly. I've tested it with both fresh records on iPhone and in Outlook.

For existing records I needed to perform a change (like adding a character in the notes field) to trigger re-synch. afterwards birthdates have been correct.

Hi,

well can't still believe it, but today with itunes 8.02 and outlook 2007, after reading this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2456

all birthdays are shown correct !:)

I enabled under itunes, after clearing sync history in prefernces, the overwrite all contact entries on iphone, and voila - nearly everything got their correct.

The year-days are still sifted one day ! (Maybe this get's fixed with itunes 8.03 🙂

And it's also the first time that all contacts on mobileme show the correct birthdays.... (year-days are still also sifted)

It's now also working with MobileMe. Just resynchronize the contacts was not working. So I moved all the contacts in Outlook to the "Deleted Items" folder and then waited until the contacts disappeared from my iPhone. Then I moved them back to the "Contacts" folder. After synchronizing with MobileMe the contacts now have the correct birthday date (export the contacts to a pst file before moving them to the "Deleted Items" folder would be a good idea ;-)).
The anniversary field on the MobileMe webpage still shows the wrong date but the entries in my iPhone contacts are correct.

Message was edited by: lucm

VCard imports into IPhone resulted in shifting of 1 hour ahead - i.e. 9 shifted to 10. This was using Outlook 2003 SP3, Windows XP Professional over to ITunes 7.x and Iphone 2.0x. This caused me to miss multiple appointments. Not a happy camper.

Well I updated iTunes and here is the result:

The birthdays in the years before 1987 between march and october do sync corectly on the contacts info. That's the good news.

In the calendar part though birthdays before 1987 between march and october still end up being 2 day events starting at 11pm on the actual birthday and ending 11 pm on the next day, even though outlook shows it as a correct all day event and yes time zone settings are correct. Its the same problem as before but at least the contacts have been fixed to show the correct birthday.

Workaroround for the calendar sync is this for me anyways: export your birthday events to a csv file and import them to google calendar and sync your phone with google calendar till apple fixes the calendar part.

Yeah the contacts finally show the correct birthday but if you sync the iphone calendar with outlook, do the birthdays show up correct in the calendar app also?

Not for me.
Contacts app: finally correct birthday
Calendar App: incorrect 2 day event starting on 11pm on the birthday to 11pm the next day. And that is only for birthdays before 1987 between march and october.

Update:

well it seems that birthdays are shown (imported) correct in contacts, but still wrong in calendar:

example:
birthday 08.09.1965 (from outlook 2007) becomes 08.09.1965 on iphone contact, but starts on iphone calendar at:
23:00 08.09.2010 til 23:00 09.09.2010

birthday 08.09.1981 (from outlook 2007) becomes 08.09.1981 on iphone correct & is also correct as whole-day calendar event for 08.09.2010

so still some things to fix !...

Hi Guys!

I have the exact same issue. Birthday within a date range of Day Light Save Time are incorrect in the contacts. Never had an issue with the dates or times with my calendar nor emails, just the birthdays inside the contacts. I live in Mexico and we adjust DST since the first week of April until the last week of October.

Tried synchronizing "over the air" and directly with outlook 2003 with the same results.

Exchange server hosted with Intermedia (www.intermedia.net). They claim to have installed all the updates available.

I am "getting used" to mentally add one day if my contact’s birthday is within April and October, but I don't want to get used to something like that! My gadgets are meant to give me a pleasant time, not to be a pain in the neck. I used to have a Treo with Windows Mobile 5 and I never had this issue with the Treo. I changed my Treo for an iPhone to have a "better user experience" and it is not a better experience when you congratulate someone in a wrong day! It is actually a little bit embarrassing :S

Apple, please fix this bug! Having a Smartphone to make our daily life better is the main purpose of a Smartphone after all, and lacking a function as simple as being reminded of the birthdays of our loved ones is not something that should be taken lightly.

Please move this issue as one of your top priorities because believe me, it affects the iPhone experience a lot.

Best Regards,

Marco

I have been having the same problem as already described. Timezones are all set to Amsterdam, NL.

Birthdays for 1980 or later, correct sync between Outlook and IPhone.
Birthdays earlier than 1980 are shown 11pm to 11pm.

What I did to at least correct this for now is
1. sync outlook with Iphone
2. change the incorrect birthdays on Iphone to All Day ones
3. Resync outlook with Iphone
The sync created another entry for the birthdays on outlook, this time it is in Outlook 2007 where it shows 11pm to 11pm. The all day event still shows though.
5.
4. Delete the incorrectly added series of events in Outlook 2007 (the ones that mention 11pm to 11pm)
5. Resync Outlook with Iphone

What I now see is an All day event on both sides, on iphone and outlook.

I only just did this so do not know if this will change in future syncs again (e.g. in a week or so) or not. If so, I will report back here.

I hope this helps some others too. This is not a good solution though as this should never really occur in the first place.

And was it solved? Can someone who previously had a problem tell us?

Hi everybody.

It seems as if installing the new MobileMe Control Panel version 1.3 solved my problems.

The new control panel for Windows can be downloaded here: http://support.apple.com/downloads/MobileMeControl_Panel_forWindows

Since I installed it and corrected the ones that were off on the MobilMe webpage, everything worked out fine - at last!

I'm experiencing the same problem. Birthdays between April and October are shifted 1 day back in my iPhone.

I followed http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2456?viewlocale=de_DE but no luck (as expected, because I'm syncing with Exchange.

Does anyone knows if there is a solution for Exchange also?

I'm having the same issue here.

The timezone in my Outlook, iPhone, Exchange are all set to Singapore.

And all the birthdays in contacts on my iPhone are all pushed forward one day, but on my Outlook and Outlook Web Access the birthdays are correct.

I tried syncing my 3 year old Atom Life WinMo using the same Exchange and the birthdays in contacts are showing the correct date...

If Apple can't resolve such a simple thing, I'm afraid that I'll have to drop this iPhone and move on to a more reliable device that at least doesn't mess up my contacts birthday...

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