birthday error

[TBD1]

I believe I have the latest OTA update as noted above, (software no. 2.01.605.11) and still have the problem.

I wonder if someone could help me out here. Go to one of your Google contacts on your computer and change their birthdate to December 29, 1969. Then go to your phone, and through the "People" tab, find that person and see what date it shows for their birthday. Dec 30, right? Edit that contact on the phone, and in the box you will see December 29, 1969, right? Go back to the computer and change the birthdate to January 2, 1970. Go to your phone and find that person through the People tab. The correct date, January 2 will show, right?

If it works out that way for you, there is still a software glitch even in the OTA update. If it doesn't, then somehow, I alone have the problem and will have to take the phone to Verizon for further investigation.

Changed one, and it behaves like yours, the Information button shows one day later, the edit button shows the correct date. The gmail- contacts on the computer show the correct date. It is only for this one, the ones that I haven't touched since before the OTA are the same in Computer, Phone-Information and edit. I'm not messing with the other ones.

[Lenagainster]

Changed one, and it behaves like yours, the Information button shows one day later, the edit button shows the correct date. The gmail- contacts on the computer show the correct date. It is only for this one, the ones that I haven't touched since before the OTA are the same in Computer, Phone-Information and edit. I'm not messing with the other ones.

Thank you very much, TBD1, for taking that bold step. That's a good indication that it's not just my phone, but most likely another software glitch that HTC has to fix. So I won't be taking my phone in to VZW, won't do a factory reset, but I did go to the HTC site and described the issue via email to customer support.

There was another issue I had with the contact information, the person's address didn't always show the complete 9 digit zip code if they had a long street address. Fixed that by putting the address under 'notes'. I guess I can temporarily fix the birthday/anniversary issue by adding those dates to the 'notes' as well. The correct dates appear in my calendar, etc.

UPDATE: 2/11/12 1:00 PM I found an app called "Contacts" by Contapps LTD that seems to be an easier way to find contacts and it gets the birthday correct. Will certainly be using it instead of the native contact list.

[TBD1]

I did find that the year 70 is the trigger, everything after 70 is ok, anything pre 1970 has the error. I tried deleting all my contacts and then re-importing from Google and the error was triggered on the import.

I don't see on the Contapps site if they sync with Google contacts, other than that it looks like I might try it.

[Lenagainster]

I did find that the year 70 is the trigger, everything after 70 is ok, anything pre 1970 has the error. I tried deleting all my contacts and then re-importing from Google and the error was triggered on the import.

I don't see on the Contapps site if they sync with Google contacts, other than that it looks like I might try it.

The Contapps app, "Contacts" does sync with Google and solves the pre 1970 date error as well as not cutting off the 9 digit zip code in a long address.

I got a response from HTC regarding my email to Customer Support about the "1970" error:

We understand your concern with the birthdays and anniversaries being incorrect. HTC is aware that this may occur with some devices and is investigating the issue. We do know that this is related to a possible change with leap year but do not have an estimate time for a resolution at this time.

In the meantime, you may wish to search on the Android Market for a third party calendar application that may provide some change to this......

I think the "leap year" claim is BS since the error occurs for everything prior to 1970; leap years occur in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, etc.

[hoboX10]

The Contapps app, "Contacts" does sync with Google and solves the pre 1970 date error as well as not cutting off the 9 digit zip code in a long address.

I got a response from HTC regarding my email to Customer Support about the "1970" error:

We understand your concern with the birthdays and anniversaries being incorrect. HTC is aware that this may occur with some devices and is investigating the issue. We do know that this is related to a possible change with leap year but do not have an estimate time for a resolution at this time.

In the meantime, you may wish to search on the Android Market for a third party calendar application that may provide some change to this......

I think the "leap year" claim is BS since the error occurs for everything prior to 1970; leap years occur in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, etc.

I think they might mean because 2012 is a leap year your phone is adjusting the birth date shown, not because 1970 was or was not a leap year.


Also, sorry I can't help with this as the problem me and others had before was Birthdays being a day behind and you all are saying it is a day ahead. But for me and most others the OTA update fixed it, so many if you factory reset and reinstall the update? That's the only thing I can think might be possible, unless another update comes out.

[Lenagainster]

February 29, 2012 isn't here yet. Why would it affect just dates prior to January 1, 1970?
At least one other person (TBD1) has the same error. It is unlikely that his/her OTA update and mine were somehow corrupted in the same way.
HTC is AWARE of the error as they stated in their response to my email, so why go through the pains of a factory reset to try to fix a problem with the software?
According to a computer programming guru I spoke with, January 1, 1970 was chosen as Day One in calculating dates, so that dates after 1/1/1970 are added to that number, and days before 1/1/1970 are negative numbers. Maybe the software that calculates the date to be shown in the "People" tab forgot about day Zero, and thus all dates prior to 1/1/1970 are off by one digit.
In any case, at the recommendation of HTC to use a third party app until they get around to finding and fixing the problem, the "Contacts' app from Contapps, LTD is so much better for viewing the information that I would never go back to HTC's contact list even if they fixed it.

[Nikiddawg]

I have an incredible 2 and have the same exact birthday issue. My inc has the latest ota update tho I have heard a new one is in the pipe.

[lukester01]

I had the problem and repeatedly made HTC aware. They for sure fixed it with the latest Over The Air update. Funny how they didn't document it as a fix though. I suspect that HTC does not want to admit 1/100th of the problems with this phone.

[TBD1]

I had the problem and repeatedly made HTC aware. They for sure fixed it with the latest Over The Air update. Funny how they didn't document it as a fix though. I suspect that HTC does not want to admit 1/100th of the problems with this phone.

Didn't fix it in mine.

[Taco]

Odd I never had such a problem.

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