Roundcube Contact Birthday Irregularities

[Carpenter, Troy]

I have created bugs for the following two issues:

1. https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4919

2. https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4920

On 2015-03-18 9:21 am, Carpenter, Troy wrote:
> 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.

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Troy Carpenter
troy at carpenter dot cx