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

Hi everyone,


Since updating my iPhone 4S to iOS 8, the Calendar app now shows all my newly added events with GMT times, and not the local time (as I am not in GMT, I am +9 hours). All my previous and existing entries are displaying normally. I have not changed any settings at all. However, if I open one of the new events and enter the events details screen, the local times are clearly displayed along with a GMT equivalent time underneath it.


I have tried changing settings but nothing shows my events in local time as it did before the upgrade to iOS 8. Any ideas? Is this a bug? Am I missing a new setting? Many thanks in advance for your help or advice.


Cheers,

James.

iPhone 4S, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 21, 2014 2:16 AM

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Posted on Sep 23, 2014 8:59 AM

sorry no solution here, just jumping in to say I'm having the same issue on the 6. I hope there is a solution as this is pretty confusing.

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Jan 1, 2015 8:05 AM in response to iDeGrood

For MacBook iCal, remove your Google calendar completely, restart your computer then re-add your Google calendar and give it time to sync.


If you use iCal on your phone, and enter a new event there, the GMT issue will still be there.


*Sent from my phone. Please forgive spelling/grammar errors, and know I don't mean to sound short.

Jan 1, 2015 9:57 AM in response to Gator5000e

Hi,


The only calendar I found is "Sunrise" which seems to synchronous with Google directly ignoring the IOS calendar!


Does any body knwo whether apple accepts this problem as an IOS 8 bug????


The whole thing is extremely frustration and I'm puzzling whether I should throw away my iPhone 5 and buy a cheap Android instead to have a device I could work with....

Jan 1, 2015 10:39 AM in response to James Barber

I had encountered this problem before and fixed it... I thought. My family uses google calendar because we were running android and IOS devices and needed a way to keep track of all appointments with one calendar. I don't know if this is the most efficient way but it works for us as I can make a change on one device (phone, tablet, or PC, etc.) and everyone knows of the change in minutes when they look at their calendars. I don't remember what I did but it took several hours of recreating events and checking settings on time zones with google calendar and iPhones and iPads etc. But as of the latest ios 8.1.2 it has returned.


I confirmed this by checking events that were added to the google calendar using my iPad prior to the December update and editing them and checking other devices. I also confirmed this by using an iPhone 4 that runs ios 7.1.2 and adding an event to my google calendar. The iPhone 4 still shows the event at the correct time however when the iPhone 5s and the iPad (both running ios 8.1.2) show the GMT glitch.


I use the Exchange calendar for work as it is tied to my work email account and I have it listed to sync with my iPad and iPhone that run ios 8.1.2. I have tried to get the events to display the GMT glitch by adding on the ios 8.1.2 devices and it works correctly (the GMT is not an issue). It only seems to happen on my devices when I use the google calendar combined with the ios 8.1.2...

Jan 1, 2015 9:58 PM in response to rd9979

also throwing my hat in: i have spent hours and hours and hours going through and trying everything suggested here.

this on top of recent major problems with yosemite on my macbook air (that caused me to lose two days troubleshooting and a week of work) has me really thinking apple is done for. this is totally unacceptable & insanely irresponsible to completely screw up the basic things people have come to depend on.

Jan 2, 2015 6:27 AM in response to jesuistv

Whole Company is on Google Apps for Business. Anyone with an iDevice is having this problem and it is driving everyone crazy. I can't believe this post has so many views and apple can't solve it.


New Events, created in EST, opened two seconds later, time zone is "updated" to GMT. Who the **** cares about GMT time zone when 95% of meetings are in EST?

Jan 2, 2015 11:59 AM in response to pogster

Your simple fix did it for me, pogster.


In attempts to fix it on my own, I'd turned on Time Zone Override, and thus was seeing events listed in both local time zone and in GMT.


But when I turned Time Zone Override off, then did a restart (holding down power and home buttons), all was fixed. I'm back in my zone.

Jan 2, 2015 11:59 AM in response to rajshree san francisco

I know there are tons of posts and I've been reading for over an hour now. I did not read every single post and I hope not to have to. This GMT issue literally just started today for me on my iPhone 6. I made an appt. on my IOS8 without issue and 10 minutes later created another event (both from my phone with Google as my default Cal) and BOOM, GMT showing up everywhere since the post today. No previous days have been affected. I added events from my Google calendar and it synced perfectly with the phone and did not have any GMT issues, not one which tells me its Apple. It is obviously an iOS issue. I just can't get over the fact that it's not a setting being that I've had NO issues with this, or even heard about this issue, until my problem began late this morning.


Don't know if someone had a fix concerning IOS 8 and Google so I'm just asking if one exists, please advise and I will look further into this on the posts. If not, then I'll wait until an update to fix this extremely annoying issue. Seem to have quite a few of these extremely annoying issues with my brand new million $$$ Iphone 6 !!!!

Jan 2, 2015 12:16 PM in response to James Barber

On my second call... My FOOLOW-UP Call. 21 mins so far. First was s Call director who chk dmd out and pushed me over to AppleCare. 10 min hold to get to person who has heard of this GMT bug ..I ask what is status on this...any hints on fix? Now on hold while she checking with IT guys and see if they have a workaround? so will update as I move along.

They did find my case number from 2 days ago.

Perhaps you have noticed that since Wed 12/31 to today 1/2 the views of this thread went up 6,000 to 102k. Wow people are at least looking in on this. Perhaps Apple will take a peak? I WILL suggest it.

Well 6 min holding ...

Jan 2, 2015 12:35 PM in response to borg22222

OK off phone now. pretty much same story. They = APPLE for sure knows this a problem...and are working on it. I update the TIER 2 Person with the View count of this thread. I got my case number just fine. And first name of the Wednesday person. So left her a lengthy vmail.. The direct number seems to be 877-203-0418...then you add an extension for your person. Good Luck. I was told we / I would get a heads up notice when they get a fix.

Not sure what to say about the poster above who says they fixed it with a full restart ( simple fix did it for me, poster.)= lmilne? wonder how long it lasted??

Jan 2, 2015 12:42 PM in response to James Barber

I did find a way to work around this issue until they can fix it... when entering an appointment on my iPhone or iPad right after I tap add I open the appointment up then tap edit. The time will show as GMT time so I change the time to what I want it to actually be then I toggle the all day switch on and back off and the time shows in the correct time zone.


I have tested this many times and once I switch the all day on then off it works fine and the GMT bug does not affect the appointment.


I too am gonna call customer support to share this with them... Maybe it will help come up with a solution!


Others please try this and see if you have the same result and let us know.

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

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