ICal, Lion and Birthdays

For some reason weird things are happening with the Birthday cal?
For example my daughters birthday shows up a day early and also says she is a year yonger.
Anyone else with this issue?
I have tried deleting the calendar. Time zones are correct.
(It is displaying correctly in Addressbook and also on my iPhone)

i am experiencing the same but only on certain selsctive dates ie 1981 results "..... 's " 29th birthday in ical and the date/ event  3 nov appears in ical as 2nd nov - i havent been able to pin it down as many dates calculate correctly and deleting and re adding contact in address book does not help my time zones and date and time preferences are correct - what i cannot understand is the randomness of incorrect calculation ? i hope there is a common experience so that we may find a solution sorry i couldnt help more

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