IOS 5 birthday calendar

Hi all,
my iphone 4 with iOS 5 is transferring the birthdays from the contacts to the birthday calendars always 1 day too early.
e.g. contact birthday is 08.11. which is displayed in the calendar on 7.11. Which is very bad, one's you have called your friends a day too early .
Anybody got same problem and a solution?
Thanks a lot.
In the meanwhile I do not use this new iOS 5 function.
Cheers Erik

I have the same problem. The birthday is correct in Address Book, on iCal on my MBP and on my iPhone, but is one day early on my iPad. I'm syncing via iCloud now.
May be a time zone issue, but I think all devices are set up the same.

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