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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

Aug 3, 2010 5:20 PM in response to Anand_patel18

I havent looked at birthdays specifically, but I have found that using the wheel to adjust event start and end times has an issue after the 26th Sep 2010.
I have found that the 25th Sep 2010 is repeated on the wheel twice. The problem goes away after 3rd Apr 2011 as 02 Apr 2011 is missing.

However... It all gets repeated between 24 Sep 2011 and 30 Mar 2012 and between 29 Sep 2012 and 06 Apr 2013. After that I stopped looking.

Changed the timezone to Fiji (same as NZ) and the problem moved to between 23 Oct 2010 and 27 Mar 2011.

Australian time zone seemed OK but no good to me in NZ.

Seems to be the same for iOS 4.0 and iOS 4.0.1

Peekaynz

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Aug 5, 2010 1:55 AM in response to Anand_patel18

Hmm, Apple will this be fixed?

evilc676

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Aug 5, 2010 5:59 AM in response to Peekaynz

Was this with a Gmail account?

If so, this has now been fixed by Google.

johcar

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Aug 5, 2010 2:01 PM in response to evilc676

What!?! A Google problem is causing two 25 Septembers to appear in my iPhone Calendar? I don't think so. (That was a nice find, HF Auckland!!)

What do you think Google has fixed? Can you supply a link to some details?

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csutak40

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Aug 5, 2010 6:51 PM in response to johcar

I am not the OP, but was about to post the same thing. There is a thread happening at Google as well http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=6a2ce69e364d1112& hl=en&start=120
I haven't tried it yet, not game to re-sync everything (I once managed to lose all my contacts at once from both Apple and Google, by following bad advice from the Three helpline) so I thought I'd wait for some more comments. BTW, I don't have the problem (that I can see) of dates doubling up, just birthdays losing days

mgreernz

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Aug 5, 2010 10:22 PM in response to JeredF

I have a hunch this is not solely related to iCal and Contacts.

I'm trying to use Appigo's ToDo app on both iPhone and iPad. It syncs wirelessly via Appigo Sync. If I create a ToDo on the iPhone or iPad say for Monday, it syncs to the iMac as Tuesday. The problem was around for most of last year, but seemed to be resolved in an app update. Now it's recurred and seems to be directly related to the NZST/NZDST cycles. I now even suspect the original problem was never resolved, but rather "came right" by default when NZDST kicked in September 09, only to recur when NZ reverted to NZST in 2010. Something, somewhere is out of sync in the way in which the Mac OS is interpreting NZ date and time settings. But I'm darned if I know where.

And of course, as always, Apple Support has been as useful as tits on a bull.

The problem is also not confined just to Appigo ToDo. Guidedways app, 2Do develops exactly the same problem (and yet uses a different sync process via 2Do Sync Helper). It seems therefore the problem lies not with the individual apps, but that something is systemically dysfunctional in the way the Mac OS deals with NZ dates and times.

johcar

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Aug 5, 2010 10:40 PM in response to mgreernz

I suspect mgreernz may be onto something linking this issue to DST. Microsoft had major issues a few years ago in this area too. There are too many flavours of sync issues for this to be related to some Google issue as a previous poster mentioned. I recently upgraded to 4.01, so did a complete restore. The problem still exists.

Come on Apple - get your act together !!!

daveb970

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Aug 17, 2010 4:46 AM in response to Anand_patel18

Everyone seems to have the same or similar problem, but will Apple ever respond?

At this stage I have just given up and deleted all birthday and anniversary dates... just too **** annoying.

KeithGP

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Aug 17, 2010 9:12 AM in response to daveb970

Has anyone even found a workaround?

I have tried disabling Google calendars, manually setting up time zone, etc. Nothing works. What gives?

Aug 17, 2010 3:29 PM in response to Anand_patel18

It's a bug in iOS4 - the exact same calendars work just fine synced to my iPad running iOS3.2.2.

At least they got the year right, which is not a given considering they couldn't calculate basic stuff like signal strength 😉

johcar

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Aug 17, 2010 3:49 PM in response to Mark Hodge1

It most certainly is a bug in iOS4 - a friend is still running 3.1.3 and the issue is not evident in her iPhone 3GS.

I logged a support ticket with Apple about a week ago, but have had absolutely no response.

I am seriously considering a move to a Nexus One, if this is an example of how Apple treat their customers...

Aug 17, 2010 4:24 PM in response to csutak40

@csutak40: The Blue and Red dots represent two seperate Calendars; I imagine each dot represents either the Birthday calendar, a PC sync, a Google Calendar and/or possibly an Exchange calendar. You can check by opening Calendar and tapping Calendar in the top left corner.

As for the main issue, I'm also affected. Thought it was caused by the Facebook Sync app I used to sync details. Guess not. Ridiculous that this problem exists, Apple should be ashamed.

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Aug 17, 2010 4:24 PM in response to nz_skater

I don't think they've cottoned on to the fact that this is actually an issue that is very much in peoples faces, embarrassing, and likely to subject them to further ridicule.

Pritesh

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Aug 17, 2010 4:34 PM in response to Anand_patel18

guys,

i been reading this topic from post to post. I wonder if APPLE is even reading this or not.

we all agree that its a APPLE issue and there seems to be no workaround to this issues unless and until APPLE gets it f**king act together and fix this bug.

Someone even opened a ticket with APPLE but no response from them. Very professional of APPLE PS: APPLE, UR CUSTOMER CARE *****....

Isnt there a way that we can complain to some consumer watch dog about this problem which APPLE is ignoring, to get their attention and to get this fixed.

we all agree that birthday dates are very important (if u miss ur girlfriends/wife birthday, thats the end of u)..

bottom line, there is a bug with iphone and APPLE needs to fix it. there is NO workaround to this issue and we are all frustrated at APPLE.

regards
PC

Aug 17, 2010 4:37 PM in response to Pritesh

Sadly Apple will only sit up and pay attention once this hits The Register/Slashdot and Co. and people start ridiculing them in a more public forum.

Iphone iOS 4 Contact Birthday Date Bug.