Recurring event times wrong by 1 hr only in iOS calendar

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Recurring event times wrong by 1 hr only in iOS calendar

I just noticed that all my recurring events seemt to be one hour later in the Calendar app on my iPhone (iOS 5.1). In the iCloud calendar (on the web site) the times are correct. I don't know if this happened right after the recent "spring forward" daylight savings time change, or right after the update to iOS 5.1.

All my other events are showing the correct time. Only the recurring events are shifted one hour to the future in the iOS calendar.

Is anyone else seeing this problem? Any ideas for a fix?

(And, before you ask, my iPhone has the correct time zone setting and is configured to automatically set the time; and I haven't left my timezone in over two months.)

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Dave Hein

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1

Posted on Mar 20, 2012 6:31 AM

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Mar 23, 2012 10:00 AM in response to DaveHein

I found the problem. When the tasks were initially created, I did not have Time Zone Support turn on in iCloud (the website) or on my iPhone or in iCal on my Mac. The events were all created over the winter, not during daylight savings time.

I turned on Time Zone support in iCloud, on my iPhone, and in iCal. That did not fix the problem. But I noticed that, in iCloud, when I turned on Time Zone support, the initial time zone it selected was "Central Standard Time". But I'm now in Central Daylight Time; so I tried setting the time zone (using the little popup map widget is tricky!) and found I could also set the Time Zone to "Central Time" -- no 'daylight' or 'standard' distinction. So I set it to Central Time.

Still no joy. But then, still in iCloud Calendar, I double clicked on one of the offending events and in the set of properties display was now a Time Zone property ... and it was still set to Central Standard Time. So I went into each event that was at the wrong time and changed the time zone from Central Standard Time to Central Time.

My guess it that "Central Time" is a time zone designation that means it will automatically switch between standard time and daylight savings time.

So, everything is working again. Hope this helps someone.

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