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Wrong Birthday with siri in macOS Sierra

When using Siri an my Imac (with macOS Sierra) and asking for a Birthday, the answer is always one day before as it should be. Asking for person "xy" with a birthday in contacts of the 24. of June it replys 23. of June.


I'm using the German Language pack of macOS Sierra and I'm located in Europe is this maybe a

timeserver issue?


p.s: asking siri on the iphone I get the correct answer....

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 27, 2016 3:18 AM

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Posted on Oct 2, 2016 7:02 AM

Same problem here on a Dutch system, see: Siri's birthday one day off

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Oct 3, 2016 1:07 AM in response to McWallaceAUT

I have the exact same issue as well, and I am using English (UK) language and localisation is set to UK. My iPhone and iPad report the correct birthday whilst MacOS reports all birthdays minus one day.


The stupid thing is - it pulls up a card with the contact information for the person you are asking for and the date shown in the correct day, but it speaks the wrong day.

Oct 12, 2016 9:35 PM in response to McWallaceAUT

I am facing similar issues. I have figured out that SIRI speaks correct birthdays only if you have selected a Western Time-zone (i.e any time zone west of Greenwich...Say for example New York or Brazil). I initially thought that it is happening since my time zone (which is New Delhi) is on a different date than American time zone (specifically US-Pacific time). But that is not the case. It doesn't matter whether local date is same as the US date. The only thing that matter is the Time-Zone. Try changing the time-zone to any Western Time zone and you will see that SIRI has started to speak correct birthdays. I think it is some kind of bug in OS. Trying to figure out. Hope to find an answer soon.

Wrong Birthday with siri in macOS Sierra

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