Exchange Birthday Shifted by 1 day

I also experience the same problem between *Outlook 2003* and MobileMe sync.

In my case, ALL birthdays are shifted by 1 day in MobileMe. (One birthday is on Feb and it still shifted by 1 day, so I am not sure is it really relate to Day Light Saving.)

It is annoying and I don't want to rely on MobileMe until it is stable.

This is not directly related, but should be worthwhile to have a look.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070313180838582

Seems like Apple like to associate birthday with Time Zones ......

Come on, I just want to remember which day my friends were born, no matter what time zones it is.

It doesn't matter, I don't need the date to be adjusted!!!!!

This is not a DST issue - at least not by me. All contacts born before 1980 have their birthday shiften to one day prior! This also apply to for instance anniversaries before 1980.

Chew on that one!

Would you mind check, whether this is in fact also the issue by you?

In my case, syncing via USB or MobileMe does not make a difference!

I am quite sure that this is a iTunes issue - an unnerving one.

My hosted Exchange provider is SherWeb, and I am experiencing similar issues with birthdays being off by one day in the contact details, but being correct in the calendar.

I have the same issue, but I am wondering, if it is a DST issue, shouldn't it be wrong in the calendar also on the iPhone? For me, it is wrong only in the contact details on the iPhone, but is correct in the calendars, both on the iPhone and in Outlook, and in the contact details in Outlook.

I have had the same problem. bump

Mine are posted as "All Day Events" - which is the way I like them. I did notice if you give them an actual time they do not get moved.

Has anyone had any success in resolving this issue? To me, it points to an Apple/OS X issue. Outlook shows all the correct information, both in the contact details and in the calendar. OWA on Exchange shows all the correct information. My Windows Mobile 6 phone shows all the correct information.

But on my iPhone, it shows the correct calendar information but not the correct date in the contact details. Even worse, anytime I try to use Entourage 2008, all my birthdays get deleted, from both Entourage and on Exchange!

I did some more testing and found that the problem does not just simply affects birthdates prior to 1980:
- May 11th 1979 ---> Time Shift
- May 11th 1980 ---> correct on both Outlook & iPhone
- January 1st 1980 ---> correct
- December 31st 1979 ---> still correct
- June 30th 1979 ---> Time Shift

Problem occurs with both Outlook 2003 & Outlook 2007. It occurs regardless whether you sync via docking station or via mobileMe. My timezone is GMT+1 (Berlin), not sure whether the same occurs on all time zones.

The problem does not occur between mobileMe & iPhone or mobileMe & Mac. However dates correctly maintained on the Mac are 1 day late in Outlook. So the problem seems clearly to be within iTunes 7.7 for Windows

From my perspective this is poor testing from Apple - pretty annoying

I've come to the same conclusion. I looked it up & it seems like DST was first used in 1980. This points towards a DST problem right?

I've got the same problem, but there is no difference if I sync directly with my Exchange-Server or via USB between iPhone and Outlook 2007. I talked several times with Apple, several tests... also a test with a second iPhone. Always the same... A now: no answer from Apple anymore! I'm really sad about Apple!!!

and I don't think is's a DST problem.
One of my friends birthday is 01.09.69, wrong on the iPhone, another ones is 01.09.83, correct on the iPhone! Other friends also have birthday between march and november and they are sometimes right and sometimes wrong!

Same problem, not all birthdays, trying to confirm any of the patterns, still trying...

Well, might as well add myself to the list.

Got the same problem as you all. But I don't sync via ITunes or via usb. I sync via push directly over 3g to our corporate servers (Exchange 2003) and the problem is there. (Shouldn't this exclude ITunes?)

When I edit a contact in my Outlook 2007 and wait for the sync to happen my contact on the IPhone gets a birthday offset by minus 1. Now, if I edit a contact on my IPhone and wait for the sync to hit Outlook, it gets offset by + 1. 🙂 Interesting.

All my calendar entries are correct, both in Outlook and on the IPhone. But most of my contacts have an offset birthday.

Either there is, as has been pointed out here, a problem related to DST or there is something lurking under the hood with the Active Sync implementation.

What's scary about this is that Apple is not looking into it - from what I can gather reading these posts.

Anyways, let's hope for a fix. 🙂

Ulf Thomas