Exchange Birthday Shifted by 1 day

Like we all said, the problem is with the contact application. It shifts all the contacts birthday I entered while DST was active! Contact application should not use timezone at all, a birthday remains at the same date, always, no matter where, no matter when you are.

Please stop suggesting adjusting settings that work perfectly with the calendar, it is a bug, and a bug need fixing... It's time to report the issue to developpers, which maybe will have more weight if its tru an apple employee.

The bug appeared as of version 2.0, it wasnt there before, so ya, its a bug, not something that will be corrected by changing settings again and again!

tobei,

Has anybody had it with contacts that didn't come from Outlook?

I have not been able to reproduce the issue, and I am not using Outlook.

Thank you,

Nathan C.

I have found a workaround that works but its not a final solution.
As other have stated, the trouble seems related to daylight savingstime.

My solution is to set in setting->general ->date&time ->timezone to one more to the east of my position. (i.e. I live in Norway but uses Helsinki (Finland) in the setting) I switch off automatic time and sets the clock correctly manually.
Now all dates in Entourage - iCal - Outlook - Adressbook and iPhone are correct.
Timezone in calender settings on the iPhone is set to oslo (Norway)
I use exchange to sync all this (thats why all these programs are used....) and its very important for me in my job that this works perfectly.
I must say I find it totally unbelievable that in 2008 this isnt fixed. This is basic use of a phone for people on the move.

Please give feedback if this works for you too so that others may see if this helps others than me.

I have similar problem with birthdays!!!! Has anyone figured out the fix?

The exact details and what I have tried can be seen in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1692554&tstart=15

I really want a fix to this!

I was a bit quick there so sorry for all who have tried this and failed.
Im nor sure why but a lot of my contacts birthday ended up 10 days wrong!
Some are correct some 1 day wrong.
I`m really starting to hate this error. It should be so simple to correct.

Apple, fix it! please 🙂

Hi there, ya everything comes from outlook, and i tried every set of combination possible without fixing the problem.

what if instead of thinking so hard here, developpers would see what changed in the new iTunes or iPhone software in the synchronization code for contacts. Because it worked perfectely well before the 2.0/new iTunes change. So it shouldnt be so complicated and require several months to spot a newly introduced bug to a previously fully functionnal feature!

All contacts have a birthday, this is really basic PIM feature, nothing advanced here. How would business user trust a device with complicated business feature when i cant even handle something as simple as that. And moreover, when it takes MONTHS to apple to look over it (there isnt even a single official comment that they are aware of the problem, not even mention solving it!)

Yes, this is riduculous, months to restore a basic contact function....

This thread has more than 2000 views, one of the top one in this category. Most of the people here have already contacted (some several times) support department. And still, nothing, absolutely nothing is moving.

Any official response? Is it inverstigated at least?

Well iTunes 8.0 is out. Anyone trird syncing iPhone with new iTunes? Is the birthday errors still there?

Still the same problem with 8.0, but I think, it can't be solved by iTunes, the software on the iPhone must be updated, not iTunes... But there will be a new update this week, but the person from Apple don't know, what will be fixed with the new update...

I've got the same problem with iTunes 8 and iPhone SW 2.1!

Unbeleivable! 300Mb downloads (brand new iTunes and the long long awaited and tested 2.1 release), full of unwanted peices of software and unwanted functionnalities i absolutely don't care of, but the bug isnt even corrected?

What are the beta testers doing? Playing around with the app store?
**** it! Why does it takes months to solve it?

Apple lack so much any transparency about what is being fixed or not in its release!

Ok i got a way to reproduce the problem.

Software: Outlook 2007 / iPod/Phone 2.1 / iTunes 8

Step 1: Select a TimeZone that has an DST adjustment, and set it in your Calendar, iPhone and Outlook (e.g. Brussels, mine...)

Step 2 (In Outlook):
- Create one contact with its birthday in Summer (Summer, June 15th)
- Create one contact with its birthday in Winter (Winter, January 15th)

Step 3: Synchronize

Step 4: Look in your iPod/iPhone, Summer is now June 14th, Winter is right, January 15th.

Expected result : See both Summer and Winter keeping their birthday at the date I choosed!

This time, don't tell me it's not a bug, or that my timezone is wrong, or anything, do it yourself, i bet the problem is with those DST timechange that are not taken in consideration when the sychronization is made!

Nathan or anyone, did you report it to developpers? If not, where is there a TRUE email we can send it? I sent it to support several times over!

Message was edited by: tobei

Same problem still. I know I've sent in the bug to apple but nothing not even an acknowledgement that it exists and they're working on it. Nothing!

What years did you use for those birthdays you used tobei?

It seems for me it only happens for years before 1987 and between months of march to oct.

march to oct does confirm the DST problem (switching from +0100 to +0200).
Apple seems to have totally forgotten that for any TimeZone that has a DST, the UTC offset changes twice a year (yes, indeed, u guessed, from march to october..)

Gonna check for birthdays after 87, i tested for birthday before.