birthday dates move forward one day when entered in outlook.com but synced to mobile (British summer time)

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I have worked out that if I correct the birthday dates and anniversary dates either on Outlook.com, Outlook 2010(with outlook connector) or Live mail the following happens.

When synced to my HTC Titan the anniversary dates remain correct, but all of the birthday dates in the "birthday field" on the phone that fall during British summer time (GMT+1)between the 25th of march and 28th of October move forward 1 day? However the birthday dates that are added to the "birthday calendar" remain correct? .

This problem does not affect dates in the Anniversay field only the birthdays!

If I correct the birthday field on my titan for any of the dates that have moved forward one day then when I check back to Outlook.com, Outlook 2010 or Live mail the birthday has moved back one day from the original date!

I do not believe it is a fault with the Titan software, it appears to be with the server setting for birthdays that fall between the daylight saving times in the server.

If I add a test contact to outlook.com with a birthday and anniversary of 24th March 2001 then both dates sync to titan with correct dates, but if I change both dates in outlook.com to the 25/03/2001 then the birthday field on the phone changes to 26/03/2001 but the anniversary field stays at the 24/03/2001. This remains true for every date up till 28/10/2001 when both times become the same again with no offset.

I have checked every time zone and location setting in Outlook.com, PC and my titan and they are all United Kingdom, GMT London etc.

EDIT, Things get worse!

I have just installed Office 365 on my laptop and if i add a birth dat of 09/07/1970 to one of my contacts using the drop down calendar as soon as I save the change Outlook 2013 updates the date to 08/0701970? Outlook 2013 actually takes a day off the correct date which is then reflected in Outlook.com, Live mail etc.

This has got to be a problem with the database on the server!

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Anonymous

2017-12-08T20:02:46+00:00

Switching to gmail seems to be the fix. Goodby OUTLOOK.COM.
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Anonymous

2017-12-01T18:46:44+00:00

Much to my surprise I rediscovered today this problem (which I thought solved).

It regards the "birthday" field in Outlook.

I use my company's Exchange server(s).

For me it manifests all over the year, but seems to be somewhat random.

I have now two Chinese phones, and some of the contacts got moved and some not. (more movements to the most recent phone...)

I have to admit that the problem seemed not to be present on my Samsung Note 4 (which being lost I cannot check it anymore).

I think I also have to switch to google

I like my contacts in Outlook as most of them I use for business...
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Anonymous

2017-10-30T14:23:24+00:00

As you have advised I have been checking this thread from time to time - for the past 5 years! Can you explain why it is taking your engineers so long to fix? Maybe you could hire someone from one of your competitors? They have all managed to implement working birthday calendars. Anyway I'm sure you understand that my patience and understanding has now run out. Bye Microsoft.
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Anonymous

2017-10-27T12:33:51+00:00

Unfortunately i have given up with microsoft and moved my contacts and calendars to gmail which actually works!
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Anonymous

2017-10-27T11:54:43+00:00

Totally agree!! They dont even seem to care. We should all switch!
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