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Hi There all,
I am new to this (first post) so sorry if i am not too clear.

The issue i have is with the calender function provided as standard with the N900 and birth dates:

I have a contact in my N900 whose birthday is 14 November 1959 - this date is set as birthdate in their details in 'contacts' area of the phone.
As you all know in the calender a little 'birthday cake' icon is displayed on the date of peoples birthdays (whose D.O.B is set within the contacts details in phonebook)
Now within the calender it is bringing up the above mentioned persons birthday on 'saturday 13th November 2010' ... why when the date set in contacts is 14th November???

I did a little more testing and assertained the following

• Set contacts DOB to 14th November 1970 (or a lesser year) and birthday appears in calender on the 13th November (INCORRECT)
  
• Set contacts DOB to 14th November 1971 (or a higher year) and birthday appears in calender on the 14th November(CORRECT)

Its not a problem with the actual contact because i changed a different contacts date of birth with the above date examples and the issue was replicated.

I have also tried setting a contacts date of birth as a different date with the year as less than 1970 but it appears correctly in the calender so it appears to be an issue only with the date 14th November (but i did not try with all 365 days so maybe there are other dates out there that have the same issue).

Firstly I would like someone out there to just try changing a contacts date of birth to 14th November 1970 and checking calender to see if birthday is displayed on the 13th or 14th November 2010 to see if it is an issue with my phone or a widespread issue.

Quite a bad one i reckon as there could be a few divorce's (or even murders) if your wife's birthday is missed or you turn up a day early with a bunch of flowers singing happy birthday tooooo mom!


ps. I have considered, and will implement the obvious 'fix' of changing all my contacts birth date years to 2009 but thats not the way it was meant to be used and its nice to see someones birthday coming up and to be-able to work out the persons age so you can buy a card thats for those special years ... 40th, 50th, 60th etc etc

Thanks all, and I look forward to hearing your responses.

....you could just tell your wife you forgot her birthday.

My N900 properly displays birth-dates for my contacts, but just recently it has started to predict death-dates. Very spooky.

My girlfriend's birthday is in my phone as the 23rd of January... I keep trying to change it and it won't change. The actual date is the 22nd.

I've noticed this as well only happened after the new year.

I noticed it because in my N97 all birthdays were in both calendar and contacts, but with the N97 contact birthdays aern't shown in the calendar. Transfering everything to the N900 causes both entries to be displayied, this was how I noticed it.

The contact I noticed, has a birthday on the 29/Dec/1968 and theres changed to the 28th. My birthday is one the 04/Sep/1968 but is displayied correctly.

Having just experimented with a contact it appears the problem only happens if they were born before 31/Dec/1970, but not for everyone.

Interestingly the transfered N97 calendar birthdays have all been altered, the year changed to 1970 if the were born before 1970; obviously there is no one old working at Nokia!

Anyone know what will happen about this????? will Nokia sort it out with next firmware update or are we stuck with this bug forever?

Calender bug fixed

this is usually expected by me, thats why i often get reminders beforhand

Hi

Anyone seen a solution to this +1 day birthday bug?
It is quite annoying :-(

br Lars

There is an amazing widget called Calendar Home Widget , download it and get rid of standard calendar Nokia wont fix it anyway