Calendar has dots on every day when there's no events

guys, i hv the same problem and resolved. the problem originates when there is an event(s) with an "end date" earlier than the "start date". e.g. an event started on june 23, 2009 and ended on june 2, 2009. unfortunately you hv to do this by going through your entire calendar. your calendar will resumes normal once you fix them all. good luck.

a reference link is here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6505076

Yep add me to the list with this...

Add me also. Same problem.

In my case it's definately the birthday calender which I've subscribed to. I've also checked all addressbook entries which have bithdays set. Can't find anything wrong here...

This isn't the case for me, I've checked every appointment.

I have 2 subscribed calendars UK Holidays and Birthdays. It only happens when the Birthdays calendar is active.

I'm guessing this is fault with the way the iPhone handles this specific calendar.

Tim.

After exporting the birthday calendar and re-importing it in iCal ("birthday 2" called now) and syncing via MobileMe to my iPhone I tried this:

On the iPhone Calendar app you tap the top left button "calendars" and choose to display only the MobileMe calendars (including now the new birthday2 calendar).

The dots on days without any events are gone.

Switching to all calendars (including the birthday calendar you've subscribed to) shows the dots again on all days....

My (may be wrong) guess is that something happens to the calendar on MobileMe.
I sent feedback to Apple, I think this could be solved.

Note: In my case the only calendar I'm subsribed to is for birthdays.

UliK

Ya I am having the same issue.

In the iPhone calendar, a small "dot" appears in the month view over days which contain events. When viewing the birthday/anniversary calendar, a dot appears over EVERY day - not just days that actually contain events. When viewing any other calendar, the month view displays correctly.

Any suggestion to fix this issue?

hi,

i have had the same problem... But it's now fixed!

I had two contacts with birthday entered...

everytime when some contact has the birthday *25.09.1988 or 27.09.1981* i got the point under every date in my iphone calendar...

i think it's a OS3 bug, with OS 2.2.1 very thing was ok!

pls send me a short feedback, when that really fixed it...

thanks

rgds
rena

I had similar with iPhone 3G 8gb - put new 3.0 software on last week.

Synced first time today - iCal, Address book............ not looked at my address book yet but on iCal........aaaaaaarrrrrrrrghhhhhhh - everything from 2000 onwards that had a repeat has been turned into a REPEAT EVERY DAY and ending NEVER

What have Apple got wrong on the sync - anybody any ideas how to stop this happening?

Nightmare

As silly as this may sound, if you have an appointment/event that has the same start time/end time, it may be a problem as well. The weird thing is, it's okay to have events that start and end at the same time on my MobileMe calendars, but any event created like that on my work exchange calendar causes the everyday dot, even on days when there are no events, until i went in and changed all those events to have at least 10 minutes, and the extra dots disappear. i hope this helps

Ok, after some testing i found the source and a workaround for this Problem.

The source to this problems are birthdays in any calendars, where on the day of birth was a switch from daylight saving time to standard time. On this day the clock is retreated for one hour which results in a 25 hour - day. This on the iphone means you have an appointment which last over two days which results in this strange behaviour.

For me the following workaround worked:
I checked all birthdays on my calendar against a list of the Switches from DST to Standard time. All of the birthdays on this days i removed from my calendars. After that i created manually a birthday event as a serial appointment, which lasts from 0:00 to 23:00 on this day.

This is only a workaround, but it would be nice, if apple could fox this with another firmware update.

On first sync after putting 3.0 on my ipod touch, I also hit the iCal "every event REPEAT EVERY DAY" bug. Did you resolve the problem, James? Any suggestions? Interestingly, my ipod calendar still looks ok, it is the MacBook iCal calendar that is corrupt.

I've also encountered this issue since the upgrade of our two family iPhones to 3.0. I've published my Home Calendar for sharing on my spouse's iPhone. When he subscribed on his iPhone, every day was showing the dot for events that day even when there were no events.

Assuming the issue is caused by a start time/date AFTER the end time/date, we further assumed that the recurring daily dots would stop recurring as we backed up in time on the calendar to a date before the bad record occurred. After backing up over 10 years month-by-month on his iPhone with the dots continuing daily, it became apparent that it had to be an annually recurring event I had set to a start date decades ago. So, I immediately started checking birthdays for family/friends that were set to start on their original birthday. It turns out it was my mom's birthday. So, I went to her birthdate in 1927, stopped its recurrence, and deleted it. That resolved the issue. All we add to do was delete the subscription on his iPhone and re-subscribe to my Home calendar and the extra dots went away.

Since we can now subscribe to an automatically generated Birthdays Calendar based on our Address Book entries on our Macs, I no longer needed these annually recurring birthday events in my Home calendar, and went back and deleted them.

Problem's gone. Thanks for the contributions everyone.

Well I found this problem after subscribing to one of my Google calendars with my Parent's Birth Days in it.

Long story short I found any All Day Yearly Repeating event before 13/12/1932 (DD/MM/YYYY) will cause this problem for me. (I found this today 15/07, so I am wondering if the problem date will advance to 14/12/1932 tomorrow?)

After reading this thread (I had responded to an newer one) I think there are a number of bugs in the 3.0 Calendar App that Apple need to sort out.