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

aladding

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Sep 10, 2010 5:02 PM in response to mrkgoo

same problem in NZ. wish apple will respond and fix it ASAP

johcar

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Sep 10, 2010 5:09 PM in response to Anand_patel18

Because of their slack service Apple have lost me as a customer-I am now a very happy Nexus one owner

mrkgoo

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10 points

Sep 10, 2010 5:14 PM in response to johcar

Bug is still there in 4.1.

My calendar, however, appears, fixed.

aladding

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Sep 11, 2010 6:35 AM in response to Anand_patel18

Hopefully it will be fixed on day. Might be a good idea for as many of us to submit feedback here - http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Pritesh

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Sep 12, 2010 3:09 PM in response to aladding

thanks aladding

just sent my feedback to apple. i didnt use very flowery words. but i hope they got the message since from where i stand, i dont see apple doing anything about this date problem. they just sitting on their a5s

regards
PC

Scottnj

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Sep 14, 2010 10:02 AM in response to Anand_patel18

The iPhone 4 has had so many little issues.
I was hoping 4.1 would fix it all. It has not.
This birthday problem is just one of many little problems.
I have had a typing issue a few times. Having to close what I am doing to make it work right again. Proximity sensor issues. It is somewhat better but I put someone on mute three times last night.
Screen capture stopped working twice.
Screen will not rotate sometimes.
Lots of rebooting needed.

I hope it all gets fixed.

BjMcKay

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Sep 26, 2010 4:51 PM in response to Anand_patel18

I would suggest everyone having this issue to either phone Apple or email them a bug report.

It looks like a genuine bug and I’m sure Apple will address it if we let them know we are all being affected. Please don’t be abusive when contacting Apple. That will just work against us.

Support number from within NZ: (00800 7666 7666)
Email support via this link: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

johcar

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Sep 26, 2010 5:08 PM in response to BjMcKay

I did this several weeks ago, and had absolutely no response from anyone at Apple, not even an acknowledgement that they were aware of the issue and were working on a fix.

Anyone that treats their customers like that doesn't deserve to have any customers!

So they no longer have my custom.

Sep 26, 2010 6:29 PM in response to mrkgoo

With the daylight savings change today I had yet another lovely surprise from Apple - my alarm was set to the right time in the Clock app, but instead went off an hour early. Brilliant - if you're trying to lose customers.

Pritesh

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Sep 26, 2010 6:29 PM in response to johcar

I agree with johcar. even i left a message with iphone but got no reply or acknowledgment.

Apples customer care ***** and i can say that to Steve's face. I am 150% sure Apple knows about the f*%king problem but they are too busy with rolling out iphone4 rather then fixing this bug. This thread has been running for a while, has anyone seen any Apple representative making any comments or stating that Apple is working on this problem. NO.

NO point being nice to Apple and make us look like suckers. Its Apple, they need to fix the f*&king problem and not the customers being understanding and nice and patient and waiting for ever for a solution.

f*$k Apple

BjMcKay

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Sep 26, 2010 6:57 PM in response to Anand_patel18

Well I talked with one of Apples iPhone senior advisors today about the alarm issue. They are definitely looking into that one and have created a case number and this man has passed me his contact details.

I mentioned the birthday bug and he said he was going to look into it. I’ll follow up on this latter in the week.

Pritesh

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Sep 27, 2010 4:18 PM in response to BjMcKay

well well. so BjMcKay, who is this Apple person?? Do u think he will take this issue seriously??

mrbofus

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Sep 29, 2010 7:46 PM in response to mrkgoo

Yup, both the calendars in my iPad and my iPhone 4 are showing the correct birthday date, but my contact details show every single birthday (whether entered on the iPhone, in Outlook, or in OWA) as one day ahead. Argh. I don't understand how this problem hasn't been fixed. It has been around for YEARS.

donrb

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Sep 30, 2010 6:40 AM in response to mrbofus

I had a problem where calendar entries were off by an hour. I found this and it fixed my problem.

There are two timezone settings on the iPhone - one is the global one under Settings->Date & Time->Time Zone, and one is the sync-specific one under Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->Time Zone Support (second from bottom on the page). Could you check that these match or that the latter is set to "Off"?

Stefan67

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Oct 5, 2010 3:39 AM in response to Anand_patel18

In NZ as well and having the same problems. Tried many different things, fooling the phone and entering a wrong date so that the bug would "correct" my error, changing them in outlook etc nothing worked.
Get it fixed Apple, soon!

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