[sync] contact dates of birth are time-shifted by one day to the past when syncing from horde to mobile

[mrubinsk at horde.org]

Quoting "lists.horde.org at pqaudio.de" <lists.horde.org at pqaudio.de>> Hi,
>
> when horde sents a contact with active sync to my mobile phone, the date
> of birth is shifted by one hour into the past.
>
> As we only need the know the date for birthdays, we don't have extra
> data like a timestamp stored within the database. But we have a varchar
> field with a size of 10 to store iso formatted dates. But thats no
> problem, PHP will threat those dates with a timestamp of 00:00:00. All
> dates of birth in the database (table `horde_contacts`, fieldname
> `object_bday`) are right. But a look into the ActiveSync Log file
> offers, that somewhere must be done some date/time calculation magic
> that a birthday eg. "1980-03-10" is exported as "1980-03-09T23:00:00.000Z"
>
> But this only occurs, when a contact is synced from horde to my mobile
> phone. The other direction works fine, also calendar entries are synced
> as expected.
>
> My php default date/time zone is set to 'Europe/Berlin'.
>
> Online research and a lot of debug approaches did not help. Now i'm
> unsure if its a horde problem or maybe some misconfiguration in my
> installation.
>
> Does anyone has the same or similar problem or knows about this?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Patrick
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This is a known issue with the ActiveSync protocol.  It has been  
discussed before either on the dev list or bug tracker.  A google  
search for something like  'contact birthday activesync issues' should  
also turn up tons of postings related to various clients.

mike
Sent from mobile

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