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Birthday and anniversary date formats

Our app (n'4get Reminder) imports birthday and anniverary dates from the device's contacts. (ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE) However, it seems as if the Amazon Kindle Fire family does not use a unified date format on all of the devices. User feedback also suggests, that dates for ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE_BIRTHDAY and ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE_ANNIVERSARY are different from one another on the Kindle Fire HD. Is there any specific information on how the date is stored across the Kindle Fire family? Most other Android devices are using one of the following: yyyy-MM-dd yy-MM-dd yyyy/MM/dd yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z' yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z' Kindle Fire seems to work with one of these, Fire HD does not. Regards, Christoph
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Hi Christoph, kINDLE fIRE hd 7 05-21 22:59:43.350: D/Testing(11447): Birthday: 1981-11-17T08:00:00.000Z 05-21 22:59:43.350: D/Testing(11447): Anv: 2009-11-02T08:00:00.000Z kINDLE FIRE 2 gEN 05-22 07:18:19.007: D/Testing(6409): Birthday: 1981-11-17T08:00:00.000Z 05-22 07:18:19.015: D/Testing(6409): Anv: 2009-11-02T08:00:00.000Z The format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z' Let me know, is there any specific problem, you are facing. I hope the above information helps
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Great, thanks for the help! What puzzled me were users reporting problems after upgrading to Kindle Fire HD and one of those shared his logfile of a KFTT with me. It read birthdays as yyyyMMdd and some anniversaries as yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z' others as yyyy-MM dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z' (a white space instead of a dash) Maybe he has some third party app messing with contacts. I'll just account for any of those formats. Christoph
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