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

"I Have a crude solution. Set your time zone under General manually to your local zone, not on auto" Thanks for posting this. Hopefully this works for some people. Unfortunately it does not work in my case. Tried it and new appointments created on iDevices end up with the GMT thing on the other iDevice when synced over.

Also, I am now running 8.1.1 (pushed out this morning by Apple) and this apparently does not include a fix for this issue.

My Exchange host, AppRiver is working with Apple Enterprise tech support on this....but AppRiver reports Apple's responses have been very flakey and inconsistent. AppRiver is good about following up with Apple, and they send me status updates about progress every couple days. So far no solutions identified by Apple, and not even a solid commitment by Apple to fix the issue....although Apple "appears" to now acknowledge that this in fact an issue caused by Apple rather than blaming everyone else on Earth for it. I guess that's progress....

Hi all... Just wondering if anyone has tried the fix that worked for me - posted on 11/26? It definitely worked for me. No problems going from Outlook thru Google Sync, to Google Apps, to iOS devices or vice versa.

To verify the fix, I re-setup the account again using the Google option vs. Exchange in iOS. When I switch back and forth between these two calendars (Exchange setup vs. Google set up account) i can see the GMT issue on the Google-option calendar, but NOT on the Exchange setup calendar.

Anyone experiencing the same thing?

I just stumbled across this program that syncs Outlook to iOS devices. It looks like the solution I need to avoid Google Calender. It does not create a separate calendar like iCloud does. It also has a free 7 days trial. Anyway, here is the like to the program AkrutoSync - http://www.akruto.com/

I will give the trial a free shot. Avoiding Google Calendar may cut out the GMT issue altogether.

Nope summarization....this bug is 100% pure Apple goodness. I have the exact same symptoms that you have and I do not own or use a single Android device, nor do I use any Google online services for anything. Read through some of the above posts and you will see this has been thoroughly tested and evaluated, and proven to be 100% a bug baked in to iOS 8. Apple generated it and Apple needs to fix it.

I contacted the company who writes the program that I use to sync Outlook to Google Calendar called gSyncit. Great program BTW. But I told them what was happening and they said they had replicated the problem and have reached out to Google to see if they will look deeper into this. They have not heard back from Google yet. Hopefully this company might make some headway as it appears they work closely with Google for their sync program. I will update this if I hear back from them.

There are a number of people, many on this thread, also experiencing the issue with Exchange. Not to burst your theory but, if you have different types of servers out there that the IOS devices are communicating with, the constant in the equation is the IOS device. And for many that's where they see the GMT. I'm more concerned with trying to determine how to recreate it from scratch. And if doing so requires having more than one device. Some posters here can wipe their devices or jump on new or borrowed devices and still recreate the problems. I haven't been able to replicate that yet. Also what is baffling is many posters here saying issue pops up after being stable on 8.1 for a while. So it's not exactly at time of update when the issue starts, but delayed. In my instance I do have a user that pretty much mirrors JG's scenario. Same issue and Google isn't even in the mix at all there. I definitely want to see what occurs if JG takes his two devices and tests with a different account that his Admin gives him. That would be very telling. You want to see if you can duplicate the same issues, with same IOS devices, to same server(s) but with a different account.

I have the same problem after I upgraded to 8.1.2. Did not have that problem in 8.1.1. I use Google calendar as my primary on my IPhone. Anything created on google.com/calendar shows up fine on IPhone without GMT, anything created on IPhone (targeting Google Calendar) shows up with the GMT. Any modifications to this "GMT appointment" on google.com/calendar makes a duplicate on the calendar and shows up as duplicate on IPhone, but not on google web calendar.

So, I rolled back my IPhone to 8.1.1. Guess what, same issue!! So, the rollback didn't fix it....

As someone previously mentioned, I don't care if GMT shows up in the appointments (though it clutters the calendar), but the EDIT of that appointment is the killer as it "magically" wants to use GMT for modifications.

Wife's phone is on 8.1.1 with similar setup to her google calendar. No issues.

Edit: So is this Apple's problem? Or Google's problem? Or both? Confused.

I have read most of the posts, and I know that Google is going to have to update their software in order for the GMT to get off our phones, if you are using Google calendar. I have read that other calendars don't necessarily have the problem.

Read all the posts. Not sure if this helps but after noticing a slight delay after adding an event of the GMT line being added. So to isolate my iphone I turned Airplane Mode on and then added another event, there was no GMT line. But I then turned Airplane Mode off and the GMT line appeared.

My problem is only adding appointments on my IPhone 6 running IOS 8.1.2. My Ipad and Mac work fine.

@j-LO: have you read any of the preceding thread? Apple has confirmed this is an issue with iOS. It's great that you are "pretty sure" about your theory...but others of us who have spent extensive time working on this are 100% sure, based on actual confirmable evidence, that this issue is generated by iOS. Good luck "reaching out to Google." If you read posts by others who tried that you can get an idea of what you have to look forward to. Make sure you call from your desk so that you have something to do while you wait on hold for 90+ minutes before giving up.

I'm sure I'm not adding anything new to this discussion but I saw this in Google support https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/2367918?hl=en.

Looks like Google calendar displays events on your calendar in local time but Google stores the event time in UTC (GMT) time to support shared calendars/calendar events across different time zones. You don't actually see the UTC (GMT) time when viewing your Google calendar on the web. However, both times appear to be displayed when displaying your Google calendar on IOS 8 or later. I suspect there will be a lot of finger pointing between the IOS folks at Apple and the Google folks. I know Google switched to Calendar API v3 on November 17. So I don't know if that coincides with the time this problem first appeared. I use a 3rd party app called Companionlink to sync my Outlook calendar in Windows with Google. They provided me with a software update that supports the new API. I don't know if Google switching to this new API is contributing to the problem we are all experiencing. I suspect only the IOS folks can tells us for certain.

Nothing has worked for me either. If I enter the appointment via browser on Google calendar no GMT displays in calendar on my iPhone. I only have the problem when I enter an appointment on my iPhone. When I do that, it shows a GMT time on the iPhone calendar. It just started for me with the latest iOS update. With all the other bugs that keep happening, this will probably be my last iPhone.

No rajshree, the purpose is not to berate other people. But you would be surprised how many people will jump on here, spend ZERO time reading through all of the previous work that has been done on this, and make a claim like "this only affects Google." That's merely irritating, but it's actually DAMAGING when those same people state that to Apple, or simply agree with Apple when Apple tries to pawn this of on Google like they did in your case. Your post madeit sound as though this is what you did, so mi=y response is an impassioned plea...to newcomers who aren't going to look beyond the page they land on.....to please read before taking actions that will unravel all four previous efforts.

The goal here is to get Apple to do something to make this right. This bug is a joke in that it's so obvious that any amount of quality testing would have revealed it. It confirms they basically did no testing and just released a beta product.

Please do call them back and please relay the following facts:

1) there are many instances of this bug occurring on setups that include no Google Products,

2) this thread includes confirmation from Apple that this is a bug in iOS, not a problem with Google as a 3rd party provider; and,

3) Apple appears to be doing nothing to prove information about this to their techs. Despite many reports, and confirmation that this is an iOS generated problem, you are calling in and being told "we've never heard of this before" which is a complete lie.

Thanks, and no offense intended.

I will also just reiterate the fact that although this issue for me is happening on my iPad air and not my iPhone 5s, it is because I updated my iPad air to iOS 8 and left my phone with iOS 7. I do in fact use Google calendar, but the GMT issue is not happening on my phone, but it is on my iPad. So this is definitely a software problem and not a Google problem, as if it was stemming from Google, my phone would be doing the same thing.
I have also submitted a report. Fingers crossed this gets fixed asap

Thanks for the info. In the Contacts section in Settings, i have two accounts, one is called iCloud, the other is my Apple ID email address, which is a Gmail.com address. The latter is selected as my default account in Settings/Contacts.

To clarify, if you scroll down further, into the Calendars section, to the last category, Default Calendar, and if you click on that, is that page completely empty?Are there no calendars on that page to choose as a default calendar? or are there calendars on the page, but you don't have any of them selected (with a check mark next to it)? In mine, if i click on Default Calendar, i get a page with the two headings which each include calendars to choose from. So, if you or others have nothing on the default calendars page, that seems very odd. Maybe there's a logical explanation. Or, are you saying that under Calendars in Settings, you have no Default Calendar option under Calendars? On my system, it's the last heading under Calendars, just under Start Week On.

I'd like to ask if you have that or not, and if you have it, is it a blank page, or does it have calendars but you haven't selected any of them? In my system, i have to choose a default calendar. There's no way to unselect one calendar. It can be changed from calendar to calendar, but there's no option to have no default calendar.