diff --git a/addressbook/inc/class.addressbook_bo.inc.php b/addressbook/inc/class.addressbook_bo.inc.php
index 997387566e..542abcbbcc 100755
--- a/addressbook/inc/class.addressbook_bo.inc.php
+++ b/addressbook/inc/class.addressbook_bo.inc.php
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ class addressbook_bo extends addressbook_so
 		{
 			if (isset($data[$name]))
 			{
-				$data[$name] = egw_time::server2user($data[$name], $date_format);
+				$data[$name] = egw_time::user2server($data[$name], $date_format);
 			}
 		}
 		return $data;
diff --git a/phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts.inc.php b/phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts.inc.php
index ebd9bbe27d..4a0d59bcb5 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts.inc.php
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 /**
- * API - accounts
- *
- * This class extends a backend class (at them moment SQL or LDAP) and implements some
- * caching on to top of the backend functions. The cache is share for all instances of
- * the accounts class and for LDAP it is persistent through the whole session, for SQL
- * it's only on a per request basis.
+ * EGroupware API - accounts
  *
  * @link http://www.egroupware.org
  * @author Ralf Becker <RalfBecker-AT-outdoor-training.de> complete rewrite in 6/2006 and earlier modifications
@@ -31,18 +26,7 @@
  * The backend only implements the read, save, delete, name2id and the {set_}members{hips} methods.
  * The account class implements all other (eg. name2id, id2name) functions on top of these.
  *
- * @link http://www.egroupware.org
- * @author Ralf Becker <RalfBecker-AT-outdoor-training.de> complete rewrite in 6/2006
- *
- * Implements the (now depricated) interfaces on the former accounts class written by
- * Joseph Engo <jengo@phpgroupware.org> and Bettina Gille <ceb@phpgroupware.org>
- * Copyright (C) 2000 - 2002 Joseph Engo, Copyright (C) 2003 Joseph Engo, Bettina Gille
- *
- * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GPL - GNU General Public License
- * @package api
- * @subpackage accounts
- * @access public
- * @version $Id$
+ * read and search return timestamps (account_(created|modified|lastlogin) in server-time!
  */
 class accounts
 {
diff --git a/phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts_sql.inc.php b/phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts_sql.inc.php
index d1abb98555..8d67d90e5f 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts_sql.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts_sql.inc.php
@@ -405,8 +405,9 @@ class accounts_sql
 					'account_email'     => $contact['email'],
 					'person_id'         => $contact['id'],
 					'account_status'	=> $contact['account_status'],
-					'account_created'	=> $contact['created'],
-					'account_modified'	=> $contact['modified'],
+					// addressbook_bo::search() returns everything in user-time, need to convert to server-time
+					'account_created'	=> egw_time::user2server($contact['created']),
+					'account_modified'	=> egw_time::user2server($contact['modified']),
 				);
 			}
 		}