Roundcube Contact Birthday Irregularities

[bshaw at vsvinc.com]

  I'm still using Kolab 3.1 and the birthdays that are synched to my Android via ActiveSync are off by 1 day as well.  I have always assumed it was an issue with my setup.

Brian

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From: kolab.user at use.startmail.com
Sent: Mar 18, 2015 10:06 AM
To: users at lists.kolab.org
Subject: Re: Roundcube Contact Birthday Irregularities

> I don't know if related but after I finally managed to migrate contacts from my test zarafa to a test kolab 3.3 I noticed the following:
>
> If iOS device is connected to kolab 3.3 via ActiveSync protocol no birthday is displayed correctly.
> If the same iOS device  contacts turned off in ActiveSync and configured via CardDAV then all birthdays are displayed correctly.
> Zarafa via ActiveSync has never had any birthday display problems.
>
> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:21 AM, Carpenter, Troy  wrote:
> > Sorry...I sent out an old draft of this email earlier...disregard the
> > earlier one.
> > ---------------
> > 
> > I have two issues I've noticed after upgrading to 3.4 using Contacts.
> > The first issue may have been happening before, so it may not be a
> > regression.  I am on Centos 6.6 (according to /etc/centos-release)
> > 
> > 1. When birthdays are synced to my mobile devices, the birthdays are
> > shifted out by one day.  That is, a birthday that shows as July 4th in
> > Roundcube shows as July 5th on my Android devices, as well as an iPad.
> > This does not seem to be the same as bug 2555
> > (https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2555) where the birth dates
> > show as one day earlier, this is one day later.  Scenarios have been as
> > follows:
> > 
> > a. Create/set birthday for the contact in Roundcube.  Roundcube shows
> > date correctly, but Android/iOS has the birthday on the next day.
> > b. Create/set/modify birthday on my Android device.  That specific
> > Android device AND Roundcube show the correct date, but all other
> > devices show the birthday on the next day.
> > c. After scenario b, modify some other field of the contact in
> > Roundcube.  The birthday now shows on the next day on Android/iOS, even
> > on the Android device that had corrected the date in scenario b.
> > 
> > In all cases, the contact as viewed in Roundcube has the correct
> > birthday.
> > 
> > 
> > 2. Birthdays that fall in December for a contact in a shared folder do
> > not get displayed on the calendar with the birthday filter selected in
> > Roundcube.  I notice it mainly from address book entries that are shared
> > with me from another user.  If I move the contact out of the shared
> > address book into my Contacts folder, then the birthday shows up on the
> > calendar.  If I move it back to the original shared folder, it is
> > removed from the calendar.  This is true for any contact in the shared
> > address book who has a birthday in December.  If I change the birthday
> > on that contact to be any date outside December (like Nov 30 or Jan 1),
> > the date shows up in the calendar.
> > 
> > I wanted to get feedback on any of the above before creating issues in
> > Bugzilla.
> > 
> > --
> > Troy Carpenter
> > troy at carpenter dot cx
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