Roundcube Contact Birthday Irregularities

Carpenter, Troy troy at carpenter.cx
Wed Mar 18 14:21:17 CET 2015


Sorry...I sent out an old draft of this email earlier...disregard the 
earlier one.
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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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