Address Book Birthday Dates

In Address Book I find it hard to maintain accurate Birthday Dates. They are either out by one day (I live in NZ and am ahead of most of the world by a day) or the days are widly off. Any thoughts as to why it seems to have a mind of it's own? Mark.Adrr

I have the same issue on my iPhone 4S ( iOS 5.0.1 ). I live in Germany.
My Mac runs Snow Leopard, no iCloud involved.
Some birthdays are off by one day prior to the real birthday-date !?
This applies to dates in the past and future.
On my Mac the birthdays are displayed correct in calendar !?

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Every birthday I've inputed into my address book appears on my birthdays calendar in iCal, except my father's. A few days ago, I noticed that my father's birthday was listed on the wrong day in iCal, so I opened my address book to check it out, but it was correct in the address book. I tried changing the birth year, and that caused my father's birthday entry to disappear entirely from iCal.
Does anybody have any advice on getting it to work properly?
Edit: I've just tried playing around with the date in the address book, When I change the year to 0001, his birthday shows up in iCal on 8/22, though it's inputed in address book on 8/24. This two-day discrepancy is the same no matter what day of the month I input (ex. 8/26/0001 in address book shows up as 8/24 in iCal)
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I'm having this exact same problem, but it's doing it with a bunch of birthdays. I also did 0001 when I didn't know the birth year, so I went back and did a more current year, but they still aren't showing up where they should be...or at all. It's completely bizarre.

Address book rotating date feature sets wrong DAY

Has anyone noticed that the rotating date setter in address book does not work properly. When you try to set a Birthday date - say 22nd it will end up at say 20th always a couple of days wrong. Even setting on Imac and synching it will sync wrong DAY - month and year are OK.
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Interestingly, I also have this problem, and I also live in NZ... (hi ppls~)
After reading the posts in this topic, namely Holly's posts about problems occuring between Nov to Feb, I went and changed someone's b'day several times to see what happens.
What I found out was b'days that are set on or before October 29 display correctly, but b'days set on or after oct 30 display one day early.
Daylight saving for 2005 starts on the 2 of Oct, so it probably isn't to do with that.
The other thing I found out, is if you have a b'day set to the first of march, it disappears. It doesn't display at all.. until you go to a leap year, such as 2004. There you will see that the b'day is set to the 29 of feb: one day early. But it probably isnt' related to the 29th of feb, because birthdays set on or after 6th of march are correct, but on or before the 5th of march are a day early.
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This may be a coincidence, but highly unlikely.
These dates don't change if you change the year to 2004 in sys preferences. Maybe it's just a freak bug, or maybe it can't be fooled by simply changing the year in system prefs..
I agree with Andy Burson, though, one day early is better than one day late

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Is there a hidden feature in iCal (or Address Book), or a plug-in available, that will let me display a person's age in iCal alongside their birthday using the date from Address Book?

Hi Jenny,
Dates To iCal 2 does this. It works under Leopard, but not Tiger.
Dates to iCal 2 - A replacement for Apple's birthday calendar for iCal in Leopard.
http://www.nhoj.co.uk/datestoical/
As well as automatically syncing birthday dates from Address Book, Dates to iCal 2 can sync anniversary and custom dates. It can set up to five alarms for each date in iCal and can also set different alarms for birthdays and anniversaries. It allows the option of only syncing from one Address Book group. This application also allows for the titles of the events sent to iCal to be modified to the user's preference.
Dates to iCal is shareware.
Best wishes
John Maisey
As I sell software on my site and ask for donations, the Apple Discussions Use Agreement requres that I state that I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

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When I was trying to add birthday date in the address book, it picks up January as default, I can't edit the month. I can change only the date and year, but no option to change the month (previously it was fine, I have more than 100 birthday dates in calendar). Even it's the same after I restart my macbook.
It's also observed by imac user http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1734178&tstart=0
Help me to fix this new prob......

With the Address card in Edit mode you should be able to click the year field and after it highlights blue, change it to the year you need.
According to Address book Help, in the Address Book Help Menu;
You can keep track of contacts’ birthdays by creating a birthday calendar that automatically includes all the birthdays in your address book.
1. In Address Book, make sure you’ve entered the birthdate for each contact whose birthday you want to track.
2. In iCal, choose iCal > Preferences.
3. In the General pane, select the “Show Birthdays calendar” checkbox.
Birthdays in your address book are automatically added to the Birthdays calendar in iCal. When you add or remove birthday information in Address Book, the Birthdays calendar is also updated. You can’t make changes to the Birthdays calendar in iCal; to change it, you must edit the information in Address Book.
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To date, I have not been able to transfer this information even though I have created a 'birthday' custom field in the palm device. This information does not get isync between Address Book and e2 Contact.
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With the Address card in Edit mode you should be able to click the year field and after it highlights blue, change it to the year you need.
According to Address book Help, in the Address Book Help Menu;
You can keep track of contacts’ birthdays by creating a birthday calendar that automatically includes all the birthdays in your address book.
1. In Address Book, make sure you’ve entered the birthdate for each contact whose birthday you want to track.
2. In iCal, choose iCal > Preferences.
3. In the General pane, select the “Show Birthdays calendar” checkbox.
Birthdays in your address book are automatically added to the Birthdays calendar in iCal. When you add or remove birthday information in Address Book, the Birthdays calendar is also updated. You can’t make changes to the Birthdays calendar in iCal; to change it, you must edit the information in Address Book.
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Does anybody has a solution for the following situation to solve:
iCal on the user machine is only able to display birthday entries out of the local address-book not out of a address-book stored on a server (Mac OS-X).
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Hi, I would need that, too.
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Hold down the option key and select the Go menu in Finder. From there, select Library.
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Until it comes to numbers data.
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I have a user who's data in address book keeps getting corrupted.
What ends up happening is email addresses from different contacts get automatically added to other contacts. Out of about 1500 contacts about a dozen will "merge" there data so that each corrupted contact has each of the others contact info in it. This will then grow and expand, more contacts effected, more email addresses added per contact. The original data is still held in the first line of each category. In addition, many contacts are duplicated, sometimes triplicated.
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I have repaired the corrupted contacts manually. Exported as address book data. Deleted files from user library. Imported.
This last time I repaired the contacts, exported as vCards, deleted all, imported. Hoping that the issue would not follow in the vCard format.
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Logs show nothing.
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Thanks, yes I have tried that. It was the first thing I actually tried, forgot to post that.
I have tried deleting the whole ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book folder with no luck. Good idea with the script.
Syncing... well that is a good question. The user has a iPhone but says they never sync it.
I find that hard to believe, have disabled the auto syncing.
When I connect over the network or via vnc I never see the iPhone connected.
I have thought of the syncing and am not ruling it our right now, but it would not explain the growing numbers of corrupt contacts. It would be the same ones repeatedly I would think.

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Status - I am running an Address Book with over 13,000 contacts on a Mini Mac (top of the line) with Max Memory. Several apps open mail, ical, address book, safari, powerpoint, ichat and skype.
I was working on a subset of my contacts a smart group with 350 contacts. Out of the blue all contact, smart group and groups vanish. Address book did not report and error, crash or restart.
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I don't know how many addresses it will hold, but with those sort of numbers, make sure you use all sorts of backup strategies.
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2) backup the folder yourhome / Library / Application Support / AddressBook / to an external drive
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Do you have any plugins active in Mail that uses AB data?
Or anything else that may be active on your AB that interferes while you were selecting such large groups?

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With the Address card in Edit mode you should be able to click the year field and after it highlights blue, change it to the year you need.
According to Address book Help, in the Address Book Help Menu;
You can keep track of contacts’ birthdays by creating a birthday calendar that automatically includes all the birthdays in your address book.
1. In Address Book, make sure you’ve entered the birthdate for each contact whose birthday you want to track.
2. In iCal, choose iCal > Preferences.
3. In the General pane, select the “Show Birthdays calendar” checkbox.
Birthdays in your address book are automatically added to the Birthdays calendar in iCal. When you add or remove birthday information in Address Book, the Birthdays calendar is also updated. You can’t make changes to the Birthdays calendar in iCal; to change it, you must edit the information in Address Book.
You can check in iCal Help for info on setting alerts.

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Upon further exploration, I'm not sure that there is rhyme nor reason to the sort order of the labels. I played with it a bit and it can't readily figure out how it sorts them. All I know is that Address Book changes the order that I originally input, and would prefer if it retained that order.
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