Repeating event sync

I, and a couple other folks I know, have encountered a problem where changes to repeating events made on an iDevice running ios 6.x do not sync properly with iCloud and thus other devices or Macs.
If I edit a single instance of a repeating event on my iPhone 4S or iPad Mini to, say, change the time by an hour for that instance only, it show up properly on the iDevice on which I made the change, but the change never appears in iCloud and thus other devices.
If I edit all future instances of a repeating event on my phone or iPad to change the time by an hour for all future instances, it creates future instances at the new time, but never deletes the originals, so I end up with duplicated events in iCloud and thus on other devices.
If I enter or edit repeating events in iCloud or on my Mac, everything syncs properly across all devices.
I have tried cycling Calendar sync off/on on ios 6 settings and I have tried completely deleting and then signing back into my icloud account on the ios devices with no change in behavior.
I'm certain this problem did not arise until ios 6. I have found several forum references to this problem with respect to Google Calendar syncing, but haven't found references to iCloud syncing.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? I'm wondering if it is related to the Exchange sync bug that was introduced in ios 6. Regardless, it's making a mess of my workflow to not be able to make changes to repeating events on my iPhone or iPad. Changes to all non-repeating events sync fine.
Rick

@Soonsay,
Is the repeating event by any chance an all-day event? If so, how did you specify when it ends? I've noticed this problem with all-day events, but it doesn't occur for all repeating all-day events. I once opened an all-day event in iCal and specified that it should repeat ending on a certain day. This displayed properly on the Mac, but included the day after the ending-on day on the iPhone.

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