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

Guys I've fixed it already for a few buddies who had Gmail ca landers turned on under mail contacts and ca landers. Just switch it off restart your phone and switch it back on.

OK, I am going to try to make it as simple as possible for people who still want to argue that this is not a bug or seem to still be speculating about whether this is a "bug" or not.

First, let's start with the definition of what a "bug" is:

"A software bug is an error, flaw, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways."

Above definition is from Wikipedia...here's a link to the full article which further confirms that what we have been talking about for all this time is a BUG:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug

The AppRiver blog Article linked below (an excellent article on this bug that everyone should read) states: "After extensive troubleshooting and providing several examples to Apple Support, my ticket on the issue was escalated to Apple’s Engineering team. Unfortunately there is still no fix, but I have been assured there is something in the works. Apple’s Enterprise team sent me an acknowledgement after their Engineering team reviewed my case and that of several other users. 'Thank you for calling in so we may add to impact on issue with Exchange accounts and calendars on ios 8. Apple is aware of this and currently being worked on.' From what they’ve told me they have enough examples now to know the issue with dual time zones displayed in events is specific to an iOS 8 feature."

http://blog.appriver.com/2014/12/ios-8-calendar-events-display-dual-time-zones/

Here is a post....copied from this very thread...in which on December 21, 2014 a senior Apple Care advisor is confirming to a user that this is an issue that Apple is working on a fix for, and not intended behavior:

Rick,

They are aware of the issue and working toward some type of resolution. As I stated earlier, that is the only workaround that we have currently. I would imagine that there may be an update soon.

Just confirming that iOS 8.2 also fixed the problem for Google Calendar. Events scheduled in iOS Calendar now retain the iOS time zone (or the Time Zone Override setting if that's enabled.) Hooray!

This has finally been fixed in the 8.2 update. I updated today and all calendar items are now working properly

Hey James, basic trouble shooting steps are Restart then Reset. Often glitches can be cleared by simply doing the first two. Have you tried restarting your phone? Have you tried doing a Reset? You won't lose any data doing either one but it's always a good idea to make a backup first before trying anything. Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset

If those two steps don't solve the problem the next step is to restore the phone's OS by where the process erases everything from your phone and brings it back to a factory new condition with the latest iOS version installed. Your data can be recovered from the backup. Don't forget to turn off Find My Phone before doing this.

Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings

Same here.

It appears iOS now saves calendar events to the cloud that can't always be read correctly by OSX. They've got it working so iOS and iCloud Calendar can read each other's iCloud-saved events, but OSX misinterprets them as being created with the wrong time zone (GMT +3:00 instead of +4:00 for me).

I'm pretty sure this problem is because I'm in Moscow Russia (GMT +4:00 and we don't observe Daylight Savings time) and they just haven't adjusted iCloud for that. This was a problem with Android awhile back. Anyone have any input on this? Do we all have this in common?

Here's what I know:

My time zones are all set correctly. iCal still defaults to GMT +3:00 on my MacBook for new events added by my iPad,iPhone and in the online iCloud or Google Calendars.

Deleting my calendar and reinstalling has no effect (Mac has trouble reading Google as well as iCal anyway, so that isn't the problem but I tried).

Events added on my iPhone, iPad and iCloud Calendar all read each other correctly.

iCal events added on my Mac show up correctly (without GMT adjustment) on all three devices and iCloud Calendar.

***Google calendar events added on iPhone/iPad are also off by one hour on my Mac and won't stay modified to the correct time zone (after I change the the individual event's time zone on my Mac it then appears to read iCloud and changes back after a few seconds. This is what makes me think it is the way my Mac reads the cloud in general, because with Google Calendar events, iCal always forces the event time zone back to East Africa which is GMT +3:00, but all Apple events read GMT +3:00... so it is the same exact problem with a different display name in the 'Get Info' window for the time zone field using Google Calendar).***

My time zone: GMT +4:00

iPhone 5: iOS 8.1 (12B411)

iPad 3 Retina: 8.1 (12B410)

MacBook Pro Late 2011:Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

Help fixing this would be appreciated as I have dozens of calendar events each week for work, I'm often away when I add events from my phone and keeping everything straight on my Mac iCal is driving me crazy.

I spent 2 hours troubleshooting my iPhone (again) before Apple would escalate my call. Here's what they have said: It's reflecting the server time that holds your email account.

Engineering passed down that it depends on what time zone your email server is on. You have to change the settings or move a mountain and see if your email service provider will fix this issue.

Currently, Apple is now aware of this issue because NO ONE calls and they don't know how they are going to address the issue as to whether or not they can shut the feature off. For those of you who are not experiencing this yet, they said they expect it to trickle down.

There you go.

I've been watching this discussion for a couple weeks now, as I'm sure hundreds of others are as well.

I have a corporate VIP user with the same issue. Our exchange server is in EST, our office is physically in MST, and all of his calendar items show PST. The issue began when he upgraded to iOS 8.

Time Zone Override does not resolve this.

Removing and re-adding the exchange account does not resolve this.

A factory reset of the iPhone does not resolve this.

We're confident this is an issue 100% on Apple's side of things, not our own settings or configuration.

Verizon helped us solve this one - it is a setting on your Gmail that didn't show up on IPhone 5s even with new IOS 8 download, but now shows up on IPhone 6.You need to reset your default on your Gmail settings to your own time zone. It will not correct all of the old entries, but all new entries will be added without the GMT.

Hi FrankCPNYC. To be clear....I am seeing this bug on appointments...not meeting requests.

As for appointments, what you are describing in your most recent post exactly matches what I am experiencing: appointment graphically appears at correct time in calendar views, but lists the GMT time and if you open it, it is actually in GMT time. If you are still not 100% clear what I am talking about, please watch the video I did to demonstrate this bug: http://youtu.be/cgP1zyi_iV8

You can replicate the exact behavior you are describing using an Exchange calendar, Google calendar, etc. It does it on all of them, because the data that is creating the GMT transposition on the receiver iOS devices is being generated by the originator iOS devices......it just gets passed through whatever subscribed calendar you are using that the devices are syncing with. It is put into the appointment by the originator iOS device.....is not read by 3rd party software like Outlook or Google Calendar so you don;t see it in the web or desktop versions,.....ad it IS read by iOS on the receiver device which then transposes the appointment time to GMT.

If you do a test using two iOS devices running 7.x and look at the very same appointments that show up as GMT on your 8.x devices, the 7.x devices will show these very same unedited appointments correctly....because iOS 7.x does not have the bug in it.

@CSeanK: Doing an iTunes restore does not resolve this issue. As documented above in this thread, this has been attempted by several people without success. I personally attempted this...going FAR beyond a restore....I actually had both of my iDevices completely restored to a fresh image of iOS 8 by Apple, recreated my synced accounts (mail calendar etc.) from scratch...and that did not resolve the problem.

Other users have confirmed (again previously in this thread) that even a brand new Apple device running iOS 8.x taken straight out of the shrink wrapped box at the Apple store, exhibits this bug.

The only way a restore is going to resolve this issue is if you are somehow able to restore your device to iOS 7.x which does not have this bug. If there was any way I could do that I would do it in a heartbeat.

Hey DBD12345,

What I mean by the "server time zone" is the actual system time set on the server itself...the server that is hosting Exchange in my case. In previous troubleshooting, my hosting company confirmed that the time zone setting for my Office365/Exchange user account is correctly set to PST. But the actual server equipment that my user data resides on is set to GMT time zone. It is that setting which is being read and displayed by the buggy iOS code when the receiver iOS device syncs it down.

Other users who's accounts are on servers that are set to different time zones are experiencing the same bug, but instead of their appointments being transposed to GMT, they are transposing to EST, or PST... whichever time zone their server is set to.

When you change the time zone setting of your hotmail calendar, you are only changing the setting of your user account, not the time zone of the equipment on which your account resides. Only admins at Hotmail would have access to that setting. A single server...lets say set to CST....could have thousands of user accounts on it, each of which can be set to a different time zone by the individual user of the account, but the server itself is set to CST, and so if a user is physically located in PST, their appointments are going to all get transposed to CST when they sync to any receiver iOS device.

I hope that makes sense.

JG

This is to share my (slightly different) version of the bug. I have just submitted my bug report to Apple on http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad, thanks JG for the handy template.

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When I create a calendar event on my brand new iPad Air 2 running iOS 8.1.2, the event looks and remains correct when I create it in the standard, local Home or Work calendar. But when I do this in one of my Google calendars, which are synchronised to iCal on my MacBook Pro (Mavericks) and my iPhone (iOS 7), the event will, after a fraction of a second after creation, show an additional GMT time zone time in parentheses on my iPad. When I open the appointment to edit it, the time is actually in GMT time, even though I created it in the CET (GMT+1, Brussels) time zone, which was clearly shown in the panel that appears when clicking on “+” to create a new event.

I can make the GMT mention disappear on my IPad by editing the event: tap “Edit”, tap the time after “Starts”, tap “Time Zone”, remove “GMT”, type “bru” and tap “Brussels”, but that makes the start and end time jump back by an hour, so I also need to add an hour to the start time to keep the event times correct. Needless to say that this is a lot of hassle.

My iPhone 4 running the latest version of iOS 7 shows the same event correctly, without the GMT added, and with my local times showing up when editing, and this is also true for iCal on my MacBook Pro.

If I create an event using the web browser on my laptop <https://www.google.com/calendar>, it syncs to all my iOS devices (7 and 8) and does not transpose to GMT. If I create an event on my iPhone or in iCal on my MacBook Pro, the GMT information is added on my iPad, but nowhere else.

If I edit a previously correct event (created in the Google web interface) on my iPad or iPhone, it remains OK.

Turning "time Zone Override" on or off does not fix this issue. In fact, turning that on or off does not appear to do anything.

It looks as if the sync through the Google server causes a glitch in iOS 8, causing the GMT to be shown on the iPad.

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JG just wanted you to know that I too followed your link and logged an issue with Apple. Like you, we here are seeing this bug with multiple devices, and in some cases both Google mail servers and Exchange servers. It doesn't happen to everyone I deal with, and seems like things can be ok for a while and then the will surface. Definitely IOS 8.1.1 though. Definitely when the IOS device creates the appointment, and never when the servers create the appointment. In my case I sometimes see GMT and at other times the dual zone will show EST and PST (and Cupertino in the appointment).

I think what WonderMikeBerkeley means is that the bug started on his devices today. Which is entirely possible. The bug itself has been around since the very first update to iOS 8.0. It showed up on my iOS devices in September immediately following the first iOS 8.0 update. But for some users it did not show up until recently.

The bug is baked in to iOS 8, but you will only see it if the server on which your calendar is running (i.e. the specific Google Calendar server your account resides on) is in a different time zone than your devices are in.

So if a particular user's Google Calendar account was on a Google server with system time set to the same time as that user's iOS devices, that user would not see this bug even though it was there in the code on his/her devices. When the user's account is moved to a different Google server that is in a different time zone than the user's iOS devices are set to, the bug will show up.

This is why many users of Google Calendar have reported that they were just fine on iOS 8.x until about two weeks ago and then this bug showed up without any settings changing on their devices. The variable that changed is the system time setting on the server that hosts their account(s). This happened either because Google reset the time on the server, or more likely, that these users' accounts were migrated to a different server at Google, set to a different time setting, as part of a load balancing operation within Google's infrastructure.