iOS 8 Calendar on iPhone showing GMT times for new events.

I will concede that Apple has declared this a bug. One thing I have found while investigating though is that a Google event created on their web calendar does not create the event automatically in your time zone, you must do it explicitly from Edit Event. If this is done, Calendar on iOS seems to behave correctly for that event. Only new events seem to have the time zone information stripped from them.

We as end users have very little visibility into the requirements process for software such as iOS. What I was getting at regarding bugs and code was that unless the spec specifically said that timezone information was to be preserved a verification of the code would pass. Validation against end-user usability however does not pass. Given that this worked in previous versions it would be labelled a regression bug, and I would then have to agree with the other users here that Apple should have been faster identifying it as an issue.

Sorry ... doesn't work for me. I tried this back in the "early days" (Oct/Nov) of the "bug" and tried again today after the 8.1.3 update.

I have only MS Office365 calendars (3 of them - work1, work2, home) in my iOS settings (iPhone, Ipads, etc.) -- I have no Google, Yahoo or Apple iCloud calendars.

The problem continues for my setup. There is no workaround that is reasonable. Hence, why I have abandoned Apple's iOS calendar and moved onto another iOS calendar (Calendars 5 and Acompli -- they work fine).

Welcome to the thread. If you review previous entries, you will see that every few days, someone new shows up and basically posts the exact same thing you just posted.

There is no need to speculate about this: Apple has confirmed this is a bug in iOS.

No need to rehash, if you are curious just go a back a few pages in the thread and start reading. And if you don't feel like doing that, I can assure you it's a bug in iOS 8 and not generated by Google, because I have this bug and I don't use a single Google product for anything. My iOS devices sync to a MS Exchange server. I do use iOS 8.

When I create appointments using Outlook on my desktop computers, they stay at the correct times and don't get converted to GMT in Outlook, on my iPhone or on my iPad. When I create any appointment on any iOS device, it gets converted to GMT when it syncs over to my other device.

You use Google and I don't use Google at all yet we both have this same bug.....hmmmmm. That sort of confirms it isn't related to Google. We do both use iOS 8.....

Also, nothing has changed with the manner in which Google Calendar handles time zones. Yet there is no issue syncing to Google using pre 8.x versions of iOS...or any other mobile OS for that matter. Try it using a device using iOS 7.x. You will see that the very same appointment will remain at the correct time (i.e. the time you set it up for) on the iOS 7.x device, but that same appointment will transpose to GMT (or whatever timeszone your server's clock is set to) on the iOS 8.x device. The common factor for everyone experiencing this issue is that their devices are running iOS 8.

Then there's the many articles on the Internet about this confirming it's a bug (in Forbes etc.).

Now that you're here, you can watch the thread going forward and have deja vu when...in a few days, another new participant will show up and write essentially an identical post to the one you just wrote 🙂

This may only work for those using Google Calendar, but I had success by creating the event in Google and specifically selecting the desired time zone for the event. This action is redundant, as the default would show events in EST, but when doing this extra step iOS displayed events without extra GMT time. For events created on iOS, doing this extra step once event appears on Google removes the GMT time.

Thank you Google for working around the Apple IOS defect!

My iPhone6 currently running IOS8.1.3, which had the GMT bug while syncing with my Google calendars, no longer exhibits that defect when creating new appointments on my phone.

I was also able to repair the appointments made during this dark time of the GMT defect by using the phone to edit the appointment(s), changing the time zone from GMT to my own, then adjusting the appointment time by subtracting the number of hours from GMT to my time zone. For example an appointment that is really at noon would show 8pm GMT before/during edit, so I'd scroll that time back to noon and done. Those appointments are keeping the "clean" non-GMT time now as well.

Whatever happened, we Google Calendar users now have an improved interaction between Google Calendar and Calendar on iOS (and Mac OS, which for me was exhibiting the same GMT problem). However I noticed something rather interesting: my calendars now display PST rather than GMT. After some poking around, this appears to be due to the fact that my Google Calendar is set to PST, while I am currently traveling in the CST time zone, so my iPhone and Mac are both set to CST. If I change the device time zone to PST (same as my Google Calendar time zone), then all the PST times disappear and my calendars look as they did before all of this happened. Same thing if I change my Google Calendar time zone to CST and leave my devices in CST - no alternate time appears. However, if Google Calendar and my local Calendar apps are in different time zones, the Google Calendar time appears in parenthesis.

Ignoring for the moment the infuriating and painful path to get here (I too have been ‘fixing’ every single calendar entry for the past couple of months), I rather like this feature. If I leave my Google Calendar set to PST and my local devices change time zones as I travel, the PST time that appears reminds me of the actual time back in California where some of my reoccurring meetings continue to happen (a nice hint for phone calls or webex meetings with folks back in PST land.)

BUT... I have an issue with this feature as it is currently implemented: Newly scheduled meetings get converted from local device time to Google Calendar time and time zone, which seems counter intuitive (and makes it more confusing to edit the time). When I schedule a local meeting, I want it to keep the local time and time zone. A work around is to change the time and time zone (same pain as the GMT ‘bug’) or switch the Google Calendar to local time, but these are extra steps and you don’t get any benefit from this feature. Maybe you have other expectations for this feature or don’t want or need it. Maybe this will change in iOS 8.2.

Try it! Does it make sense?

I don't use Google. But I am curious, what do you have "Time Zone Override" set to on your iOS device? The behavior you are describing sounds like how that feature is SUPPOSED to work, but never actually HAS worked so far. With it set to "on" all events are created in the user set time zone (in your example PST) regardless of what time zone you are in. With it set to "off" then when you are in CST, any new events you set up will be in CST. Check on that and let us kniw. If it's set to "on" turn it off and let us know what if anything changes too.

It is February 8, 2015

• There have been widespread media reports that this is a BUG in iOS
• Apple still refuses to acknowledge it is a bug in iOS
• As of a week ago, Google implemented a back-end change (documented in the media as well) and the bug is gone for Google users only, but persists for Exchange users.
• iOS 8.2 Beta release notes indicate that this bug is fixed in the most recent beta (release 5)
• As of today, "normal" Apple users running 8.1.x and syncing to Exchange continue to experience this bug
• As of today, "developer" Apple users running 8.2 Beta R5 confirm that this bug is fixed when syncing to Exchange

If this is not bug in iOS, then how did Apple manage to fix it for Exchange users in iOS 8.2? Exchange clearly didn't do anything on their end because users on 8.1.x still have the bug. Yet on the very same day developers running 8.2 beta don't have it. These aren't "theories" or "conjecture" these are confirmable facts.

Despite the above, which anyone can confirm independently, Backgammon will come on here and argue that there's no way anyone can say this is a bug in iOS. Even though the above set of facts is only possible if this is due to a bug in iOS 8. Then he'll accuse you of persecuting him.

This thread is so long so I don't know if anyone said this yet but I had this problem with my Yahoo calendar. I went to the Yahoo website then to the my calendar then to the calendar options. I noticed that the time zone was not set. I set this to my time zone and events I add from my yahoo website show correctly on my phone and events I add from my phone show on my yahoo website calendar.

When Time Zone Override is off, Calendar automatically uses the time zone in the Date & Time setting (under General). Time Zone Override allows you to select a different time zone for the Calendar, say if you're in New York, but want to view your calendar as if you're in San Francisco.

bebopper wrote:

When Time Zone Override is off, Calendar automatically uses the time zone in the Date & Time setting (under General). Time Zone Override allows you to select a different time zone for the Calendar, say if you're in New York, but want to view your calendar as if you're in San Francisco.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I appreciate it!

Sorry, I was not clear. I agree - first step is to remove and re-add the calendar service. This should remove the GMT time stamps in iOS Calendar. However, if this doesn’t work, events CAN be fixed by editing the time zone in each affected event.

Hello,

I was having the same problem on my new computer. What I did solved my problem.

I went on settings-date & Time - Time zone tab- and then I selected the corrected time zone. ( I am in Los Angeles and the time zone was set for Chicago. My calendar was going crazy).

If you having problems on your Iphone I would go on:

settings- mail - time zone override (choose correct location) or just turn it off.

I hope it helps?

Try looking at my previous post. When I removed the event time zone in gmail and synced with my iPhone, the GMT dissappeared.

Go to "gmail" under accounts section of the mail, contacts and calendars tab and turned off calendars then turned it back on. I also have the time zone override on.