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iPhone's birthday calendar bug

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solo84

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Aug 14, 2008
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Can you guys check your phones? When adding a birthday date field in the Contacts, the calendar for September does not show the 10th of the month but two 8ths instead...

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Its iPhone 3G 2.0.1 NOT pwned or unlocked.

Please write your phone and software ver.
 
My add birthday page looks different. The month is in the middle, day on the left, and year on the right... Also on 2.0.1...iPhone 3G 8GB

But the 10th does show up.

EDIT: I guess this may have to do with the region formatting?
 
macdim said:
My add birthday page looks different. The month is in the middle, day on the left, and year on the right... Also on 2.0.1...iPhone 3G 8GB

But the 10th does show up.

EDIT: I guess this may have to do with the region formatting?
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Yep, your phone must be set to show dates in the international format.
 
crsd36 said:
Yep, your phone must be set to show dates in the international format.
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It's set for Canada. I guess we just like to be different, although Wikipedia claims we use 3 different types of date formatting interchangeably.

Whatever...
 
Where even is the add birthday page :confused::confused:

:S

Nope I'm stupid, i got it... my date has it with the day number at the start and the month in the middle too... no double 8's either.
 
is there any benefit to adding bday info to the contact vs putting it in ical?

i would think ical is better suited for this...
 
Diode said:
Didn't know you can add birthdays. Does it show up in the calendar?
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No. Although it would be nice if it added them automatically to the calendar, it does not. I was thinking about developing an app specifically to do this, but currently the SDK does not allow access to the calendar...
 
Diode said:
Didn't know you can add birthdays. Does it show up in the calendar?
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iCal on the Mac will show birthdays if you tick the option to do so. Unfortunately, subscribed calendars do not (yet) sync with the iPhone.

That in itself is an annoying issue, but besides the points.

As to why you want them added to a contact instead of just in iCal it's so you can look when someone's birthday is in their contact info, instead of having to search a calendar for it. In addition, a good birthday/calendar integration will be able to tell you what age the person is. iCal doesn't, but I seem to recall that Outlook does.
 
sgibson said:
iCal on the Mac will show birthdays if you tick the option to do so. Unfortunately, subscribed calendars do not (yet) sync with the iPhone.

That in itself is an annoying issue, but besides the points.

As to why you want them added to a contact instead of just in iCal it's so you can look when someone's birthday is in their contact info, instead of having to search a calendar for it. In addition, a good birthday/calendar integration will be able to tell you what age the person is. iCal doesn't, but I seem to recall that Outlook does.
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iCal does tell you how old they are:
 

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tico24 said:
iCal does tell you how old they are:
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OK, that's weird, because it doesn't on mine (10.5.4). Actually, reading about it doesn't seem to do it for anyone. Have you installed YABI (or similar) and forgotten about it by any chance?
 

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