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iCal is correct
Authored by: iamacat on Mar 15, '07 12:03:02PM

When you were born, some of the world had a different date on the calendar. Conversely, if you want to congratulate your friend, you may need to call one day early or late depending on where you and he/she lives.



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iCal is not correct
Authored by: tancurl on Mar 15, '07 01:26:20PM
iCal is not correct.

The actual point in time at which people celebrate their birthdays depends on what timezone they are in, not which timezone you are in.

To deal with this I guess you could individually adjust everyone's birthday - e.g if you are in the US and you have a friend in Britan, you could enter the US date at which their birthday will actually be occuring, rather then the birthday they will be experiencing if they were with you in the US. If they move to Australia, you could go and adjust their birthday again.

But are you seriously going to adjust each and everyone of your contacts birthdays each and everytime they move from one country to another? I don't know about you, but I have friends and family all around the world, and many of them are often travelling around.

So the best solution is for AddressBook to just keep the nominal birthdate that you enter, and not shift it around. That way when you see a birthday coming up you can figure out what timezone they are in yourself.



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No, this is a bug
Authored by: boxcarl on Mar 15, '07 01:26:22PM

You would have a point if the birthday field of Address Book allowed us to input a time of birth along with a date. It does not. Therefore, the birthdays should not be moved.

This bug is really annoying too, since the whole reason I started putting birthdays into the Address Book was because I didn't want to remember them myself. When birthdays start wandering around (seemingly) at random, how am I supposed to even know besides asking people what their birthday is again? Apple screwed this one up.



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iCal is correct
Authored by: tancurl on Mar 15, '07 01:44:58PM

Also, birthdays should never move dates as timezones mean days in different countries actually overlap.

For example if you are in Vancouver and your Mum's birthday is Jan 1st and she is in Australia, her birthday will be your evening of the Dec 31st and run into Jan 1st. In this case it makes no sense for iCal to display her birthday as Dec 31st as you could phone her on the evening of the 31st or the morning of Jan 1st and still talk to her on her birthday...

iCal shifting birthdays just makes figuring these things out even more complicated!



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