Exchange Birthday Shifted by 1 day

Same problem. Outlook 2003, iTunes via USB connection. Some contact birthdays wrong some OK. Spent hours and hours and no solution...

And actually it is the same problem with MobileMe.

Ok however, I've been trying different changes to iPhone. So I set mine time zone apx. 6 hour plus and than 6 hours minus. I do not recall everything what I did but one of my contacts' birthday have been now corrected from d-1 to d. Can't say about other contacts, was checking always the only one.

And guys, be careful! If you change something in a contact's information where the birthday is d-1 and sync to Outlook, you'll get a wrong entry in Outlook as well!!
I wonder, would it be then again d-1 to a new date. So will get d-2 to a correct date.
This is actually a huge problem.

oh, yeah, my Setting->Mail, contacts, calendar->Time zone support is now switched off as well

Does it help someone as well.
I just fear that now it sync fine but then some setting which we don't see or is not related to contacts or calendar will be changed and it will "relaunch" bug again.

Settings-General-Time-Time Zone corresponds in hours to PC's setting




PS It is so annoying that there is no proper working edit function on this board.

same problem here, i'm also gmt+1.

i also have the problem with mobileme. the birthdays start at 11 pm the day before - on the iphone and on mobile me.

pretty annoying.

The same Problem here with 3g and exchange. What I found out so far is, that we neither can say, that all Contacts with birthdays during the DST nor generally before 1980 are affected. It seems totally randsom. Some are off and some are correct

Could it be that the time of entering the birthday might be the reason for the Problem? Like ActiveSync is checking the entry Date and the Birthday itself.

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Thanks to all for the tests and findings about this very stupid problem.

I'm not sure it has nothing to do with the birthday date and DST. I have not a complete test series, but all my birthdays outside the DST periode are correct.

Since my 'master' contacts are in an access db I reloaded all contacts to outlook and completely new syncronized to iPhone with same results. So I think it has nothing to do with the entering date, since for outlook they all are created then a the same date.

Apple techies with the source code have located this problem in 15 minutes. How long have we to wait for a solution?

Rgs
A&B

Same problem here. All birthday date outside the DST period are okay. And the birthdays after 1980 WITHIN DST are also correct. I'm searching for a solution since weeks but with no success.

Apple, can you please provide a patch to this problem!!!!

I tried this too, but when I manually changed the affected birthdays on the iPhone, then it would show up incorrectly on all calendars [iPhone, Outlook, OWA]. Same thing if I tried changing it in Outlook.

Same problem here. I tried syncing my iPhone with outlook 2007 via usb, and via MobileMe. Some birthdays are correct, and some are not. Can't seem to find a pattern in it.

Same problem here and it is a DST/TimeZone issue. When your contry as a DST, you are very prone to create and edits contacts in either TimeZone through the year. Then, when you look back at your contacts, half of them have their birthday set on the wrong timezone.

You can reproduce this problem by just shifting your phone timezone to some earlier timezone, and then look at the birthday of your contact. Makes mine all shifted by one day.

Birthday should not be affected by timezone, a birthday is linked to a date label, not to a 24hour period. A birth date should be displayed as entered and as displayed on ID documents, and not appears different given the timezone we are in. If my birthday is January 1st, it remains January 1st wherever I am.

Timezone should not be used when a contact is stored or when the date is displayed. When will apple fix this problem? it renders the whole point of using birthday reminder useless.... and much worse, it syncs backs errors to my original calendar! Now i have to manually check every single one of 500 contacts. Thats a bug!

I am not sure that Apple looks here at all, so guys,

let's use http://www.apple.com/support/mobileme/
(because it is the same problem with MobileMe)
and here
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
as well, to get their attention.

Somehow it is working fine for me now (look my previous posts). If you would like to ask something more, let me know, however, I am not going to change my setting 🙂

Please share your settings with us. I checked and noticed that you put time zone support to off, however, this doesn't fix the problem for me.

New Update (2.02), same problem. And now answer any more from Apple!
Can everybody with the same problem email?! <post edited by host> Maybe this will help that Apple solve the problem!!!

Which time Zone you have? Mine is now Paris. BTW those cities from Weather I have deleted as well (it were two cities in New Zealand which was set to Time Zone). Don't know how it could influence, but I had been making changes, syncing, making changes, syncing, till I got the result. I have rewritten over the contacts in iPhone several time and still had correct result.
I can not reproduce the whole process of setting changes because I do not want to reset my setting now while I actively using iPhone and Address book as well, so if it will take me time to get to the right point again (one week) it is just too much unusable software.