Iphone iOS 4 Contact Birthday Date Bug.

Hello,

Every time I add a contact and add their birthday the date of the birthday automatically moves by one day.

For example, I will select someones birthday as the 23rd of march and click done but the contact birthday shows 24th. Even if I select a random date say 1st June, it will say 2nd.

When I go into the calendar app and display the birthday calendar the birthdays are right though, it will have a notification as a birthday on the 23rd.

I have done a fresh restore from a backup and as a new iphone, still I have the error.

I'm thinking that the contact list in iOS4 is set to a specific timezone different from my phones timezone as it adjusts it for a day. I live in New Zealand and my timezone settings are set to Auckland, New Zealand, even in the calendar time zone. When I change my timezone settings to somewhere in the USA it automatically changes the contacts birthdays to the correct date. When I change it back it adjusts te birthdays by a day again. This would be correct as the 23rd in USA would be the 24th here but my contacts are not in a different timezone so why does my iphone think they are? Even if a add a new contact it still changes the birthday date.

Any help would be great.

Iphone 3GS, iOS 4

Posted on Jun 21, 2010 3:08 PM

140 replies

Dec 3, 2013 5:46 AM in response to sgauntlett

I have a solution that is finally, and so far, working for me.

I have Windows 7, MS Outlook 2010, iPhone 4, iOS 6.

For me it was birthdays, anniversaries and anything that was created with a "yearly recurrence" pattern (in Outlook), and "no end date" that would all be one day late on my iPhone. Go into Outlook, open a "yearly recurring" item (open the series, not just "this occurence"), click on "Recurrence". Change the "Range of Recurrence" from "No end date" to "100 occurences". Or whatever you want - you can go up to 999. I figured 100 would outlast me, my relatives AND my Outlook. I went through and changed one month at a time, refreshed and good so far. Jus tremember that any new yearly event needs an end date.

Dec 4, 2013 6:04 AM in response to Anand_patel18

Dec 6, 2013 3:21 AM in response to Anand_patel18

I am on IOS6 and have noticed since returning to the UK from the USA a couple weeks ago that I too have this fault. I have just been through the settings and have fixed it! Settings - Mail, Contacts & Calenders - Time Zone Support - Switch Time Zone Support on and set to your time zone. Tada!

Dec 6, 2013 3:33 AM in response to Eric Q Public

Sadly the 100 years solution only works for manually created events. I use the "Birthday" field in the Outlook contacts which creates a similar calendar event (although highlighted with a little present icon) so there are no options to set this to reoccur only 100 times.

Winnietp

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Jan 30, 2017 7:23 PM in response to sgauntlett

I just noticed I have this "one day late" problem in my calendar for birthdays. This is now 2017 and iOS 10.2!!!! Is there no fix to this yet? Must I use a work-around?

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Iphone iOS 4 Contact Birthday Date Bug.