Changing Birthdays in 'Birthday Calendar'??

I have had an issue when i updated to 4.2.1 that the birthdays i had set up in my contacts all went back one day. I sync my contacts via my google contacts and have no idea why this happened?
Anyone else suffer the same thing?

Have you changed timezones recently? I have the same problem on my iPhone and haven't been able to get any response or assistance at all.

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