Birthday Sync Problem: Displays 1 day earlier on phone compared to PC - Page 2

regulator207 · #11 (**permalink**) 01-05-2010, 02:41 AM

Ok so the update in the first post works.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobi...gs-update.mspx

Here is the direct link to the Dec update: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/

the link posted by mogulman01 is for the march 2008 update which has been updated to the dec 2008 updated as linked in this post.

Before you sync you contacts, install the update via cab file then sync and the birthdays show up fine in manila.

Correction:
the birthdays outside of DST have been synced correctly but the ones within DST still are off. what a mess.

mogulman01 · #12 (**permalink**) 01-05-2010, 11:08 AM

Thanks..didn't realize there was a newer one. I'll install this one.

madcowmilau · #13 (**permalink**) 01-05-2010, 07:00 PM

same issues for me too

regulator207 · #14 (**permalink**) 01-06-2010, 03:13 AM

this appears to be a widespread problem among multiple devices (iphone, android, and wm) here's a long thread at apple: http://discussions.apple.com/thread....t=150&tstart=0

I wonder if it's something inherently wrong with activesync?

killerz298 · #15 (**permalink**) 01-11-2010, 12:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mogulman01

I found this patch.. I erased the contacts/calendar on my phone. Installed this patch and then did Activesync. Now everything seems to be working:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Hopefully this will work for me as well because it is really annoying me now. I will try it out and report back.

chewie8han · #16 (**permalink**) 01-11-2010, 03:55 PM

I don't have a lot of birthday's save in my contacts, but I have noticed that all of my calendar appointments are wrong. My appointments are all at least full day if not multiple day appointments and they are all 1 day early. (Jan 10 instead of Jan 11 AND Jan 10-13 instead of Jan 11-14).
I don't know if this is related to the birthday thing at all or not. I notice this when I run the NRG Leo rom (21885 Dec. 31). I did post there too to see if anyone else there is having the problem. I did just create my own rom (no where close to being truely usable) and it did not have this problem. Flashed back to NRG and the problem is back.
The DST fix shouldn't fix it as that would change it 1 hour, not a day.
Is anyone else having this problem with non-birthday appointments?

Kevin

jaewchoi · #17 (**permalink**) 01-13-2010, 02:52 PM

I am so annoyed that I just want to get rid of my TP2 and get a blackberry!!! Not sure if Blackberry is bug free though...

So here's the what's going on. Say my friend "Mike" has April 3rd birthday. I go to Outlook 2007 and I input April 03 in the birthday field under "Mike" contact profile. The Calendar in Outlook gets automatically updated and says "Mike's Birthday" as an all day event on April 3rd.

I sync to my TP2 and my TP2's caldendar says "Mike's Birthday" on April 3rd. Good.

Then I go to contact in my TP2 and under "Mike", it says his birthday is April 2. No Good.

As someone had mentioned it earlier, this has to be a DST issue. for any birthday before DST (which begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March), there's no problem. Everything shows correctly. But any birthday that occurs after DST, it's always one day earlier.

Is there a fix yet? Anyone? Will everything be fixed once we enter DST?

regulator207 · #18 (**permalink**) 01-13-2010, 07:53 PM

i noticed this problem during DST as well

GDOG11324 · #19 (**permalink**) 01-20-2010, 12:23 PM

I noticed the same thing, and the Microsoft DST patch didn't really seem to do much. Does everyone using the TP2 have this issue or is it just a select few?

My birthdays all fall on the correct day right now(Using VZW official 6.5), but during the DST shift this past fall all my b-days were off (not all of them, just certain ones) and I had to re-enter them.

Also noticed some birthdays that fell on the first of the month (on my phone april and june) all showed up on Jan 1 instead. Still having this issue.

An additional note that may help solve this issue Is when looking at birthdays in Microsoft My Phone, birthdays that occur during DST are marked 1 day early (April 1 is March 31) but those out of DST are correct (Dec 22 = Dec 22) But all still show up on the correct day on my phone right now. Just bad programming perhaps? If I was a better programmer I'd make a fix myself.

If I make any further discoveries I will be sure to post them.

GDOG11324 · #20 (**permalink**) 01-20-2010, 04:29 PM

Another discovery.

A birthday I have entered on June 24, shows up in the Touch Flo calendar on June 24, however in the contact information for that person (on the phone), the birthday is marked as being on June 23 (as well as on Microsoft My Phone). In outlook, the birthday is still marked as June 24.

I entered all my birthday data in outlook 2007 on my PC and synchronized it using WMDC 6.1, all birthday occurrences were automatically added when I added the birthday data for the contact.

Once again, all affected dates and contacts are birthdays that occur during the DST months.