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

I am very curious to find out what dynamic could cause this to have resolved via this method in your particular case. Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is not a solution.

I have been running Yosemite on my MB Pro since October, and it had no effect on this issue whatsoever (doesn't cause it, and doesn't resolve it)

The issue is due to the interaction of bad code in iOS and the system time setting on your account server. Therefore I would be really surprised if changing anything on a client (like your iMac) would have any effect. I certainly believe what you are reporting, but I don't think this was caused by an upgrade to Yosemite. have you tested setting up appointments on both Yosemite AND on your iOS device(s)? In my case, appointments set up on Yosemite or by my windows machines always looked fine on the iOS devices....only appointments created or modified on an iOS device will have the GMT thing on them.

Do you have any way to find out if any other variables in your system changed? I suspect what happened is that most likely your account was migrated to a different server that is set to your current local time zone. Do you have some way to find out?

Yes. At your suggestion, I just tried setting my phone to another time zone. (I randomly chose Rome, Italy.) I then created a new event for now (11pm in Rome). The event in my calendar now says:

from 11 PM Mon, Dec 29, 2014

to 12 AM Tue, Dec 30, 2014

from 10 PM (GMT) Mon, Dec 29, 2014

to 11PM (GMT) Mon, Dec 29, 2014

And if I try to edit the event, all times are in GMT.

Exactly the same behavior, regardless of which time Zone I am in. I suppose if I set my phone to a city that is exactly in the GMT time zone, then it wouldn't be a problem... except that I don't happen to be in that city.

Thanks for responding so quickly.

Unless the Geniuses at your local Apple Store have the ability to go in and modify the iOS source code, they are not going to be able to "solve" this for you. What will most likely happen is that they will assure you this can only be caused by the server that hosts your calendar account....which is total BS and has been thoroughly confirmed to be BS.

A much more effective use of your time that may actually generate a result is to report this bug to Apple using the feedback link.....provided multiple times above in this thread. If you read through the thread even a little bit you will find the link.....and also posts that explain why the Genius Bar folks can't do anything about this for you.

I'm just trying to save you time and frustration here.

Im having the same issue with my iphone and Ipad. When I create the appt in gmail there is no issue, but when I create the appt on my iphone or ipad it adds the GMT. Found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgP1zyi_iV8 that makes it clear that is it an Apple IOS issue. I had no problems before the latest update. Apple FAIL.

Hi,

I am not sure to whom I am responding. All the posts on this thread are essentially about the same issue. I now call it the "GMT Issue". Someone posted that it would be helpful to contact iPhone support technicians, 800-694-7466. Thank you to whoever posted it. I did call them, and we were able to make this stop while on the phone with support staff at iPhone. Once I hung up the phone, the issue manifested itself again. This issue is a system issue and I am hoping and hoping that the more folks contact iPhone and Apple that they will report attempting to resolve it. What I find fascinating is that the "GMT Issue" does not happen to everyone. I do wonder what the difference is between those for whom this occurs, and those for whom it does not.

Thank you again to all who are posting about this issue. Let's all hope that soon it will be resolved.

Happy New Year to all.

Brogan you kick ***!! Thank you for enduring the long slog through hold times to get this escalated and then reporting back some of the firmest confirmation we have seen to date that a fix is actually in the works. I have my fingers crossed for 8.1.3 but I also would not be surprised if this doesn't get resolved until the public release of 8.2....already confirmed it's not in the beta of 8.2.

That's good to know. I will try testing the same here. Maybe switching to an "All Day" appointment clears out the code that is querying your calendar server and acquiring the time set on its system clock. The 24 hour time lag....and this sticking....makes that hopeful.

No it is not limited to Google Calendar. I sync my devices using Exchange. I don't use a single Google product for anything. It affects Google and Exchange users and I have even heard of others seeing this on iCal. The common factor is not he server or service...it is iOS.

Is your Exchange account hosted locally at your company office? Or do you use a remotely hosted account? The reason you aren;t seeing this on Exchange is because your Exchange server's system time clock is set to the same time zone your iOS device(s) are set to. If you have a local company-managed Exchange server you can easily confirm this.

"This has been extremely frustrating because many people can't grasp the concept of a bug that was present all along but didn't show up all along. Many people think that the fact they were just fine on iOS 8.x for a few weeks after the September update and then this showed up "without them changing anything" is "proof" that it isn't a bug in iOS, but is due to Google etc. Not so. The bug was there all along and they just didn't see it."

This is so TRUE! I encountered this problem last spring before any iOS 8 was released and iPhone6 was still something we were dreaming about. I spent hours trying to figure it out- deleting accounts, recreating appointments, fixing time zone settings, and eventually reentered every appointment on my calendars. At the time there was an issue that turned up on my google calendars and I don't remember what it was or how I fixed it but I do know there was a lot of stress and arguing over missed appointments because of this GMT thing. When I noticed it last week and discovered it was on my calendar for everything created after December 9 I was gonna flip out... so yes, this has been around for at least a year now and it only comes out when the update has the right mix for the bug to be noticed. I don't understand how Apple can't figure it out with all the money they have. I have no clue how to write code or create apps and all that mess but surely there is someone collecting a 6 figure paycheck at apple who can fix this!

Beware... your solution still results in a GMT bug when I change appointments that I created on the google calendar. Changing the time of the appointment does not affect it but when I assign it to a different calendar (my wife and I have separate calendars but share them) in google then it shows up. Here is something even more frustrating... First, I create an appointment on my google calendar. If I do nothing to the appointment the GMT does not show up on my iOS device. If I edit the time of the appointment on my iOS 8 device the GMT still does not show up. But if I edit the appointment on my iOS 8 device (iPhone 5s or iPad?) and assign it another google calendar that I share with my wife, or with work, etc. the GMT shows up. Then I assigned it back to my google calendar using my iOS 8 device the GMT does not go away AND I have a second appointment appear on my GOOGLE calendar and NOT my iOS devices

Also, I stil am having success with "toggle all-day on and off work around" GMT goes away....

I read all the different threads, and tried everything suggested, it still doesn't work correctly, and still displays GMT. (iCloud, time zone override, correct time zone, I tried EVERYTHING). The only thing that did work, I turned off all calendars associated with an email account. That's the only thing that has worked to make GMT completely go away. Not a solution for most people who work I'm sure and thus need to keep their calendar synched across different platforms, but that's what my only solution has been.

Now to relog every single appointment.

BTW I'm on a brand new iPhone 6. I never had this problem on the 4 even with upgraded iOS. I've had so many issues across all Apple iPhones I would have loved to just chuck it, and start with something else. But I have too many other Apple products to even make that a possibility. Apple needs to get it together.

"The problem is Google and nothing else."

^^ That statement is absolutely not true. If you had even briefly skimmed this thread you would see that this affects Microsoft Exchange as well, and that some others are reporting the same problem with iCal.

I don't use a single Google product for anything and I have this same problem just like everyone else on here. I use Exchange. Just because you use Google and Yahoo!, and you observed that this affects Google but does not affect Yahoo! does not give you enough data to conclude that this affects "Google and nothing else." Have you tested this out on multiple other available sync services? How about on any sync service other than the two you mentioned? I hope you don't do forensics for a living.

When you post totally inaccurate information like "The problem is Google and nothing else" you are setting back MONTHS of work that we have been doing to identify the causes of this bug, and to pressure Apple for a real solution. New people who show up here....including apparently yourself....usually don't make any effort to read previous posts. They will read your post and say "OK I'll just use something other than Google" instead of understanding that this is due to a BUG in iOS and calling Apple to report it....which will ultimately generate a REAL solution.

People these days have a tendency to simply believe whatever they read without thinking critically about it. That's why if you are going to post information in a forum like this, you need to do just a little due diligence to make sure your claims are accurate.

I fully agree with this being totally unacceptable on Apple's part. Both the bug and its handling.

I have found a practical way of working around it in the sense of it not interfering with my work but I'd like to know if I'm missing something.

From what I've come to encounter, there are two issues with this bug:

* iOS, and calendar in OSX shows the GMT times in addition to my local times

* when editing an event and trying to change either the starting time or duration, iOS SHOWS me the GMT time and basically wants me to change the time based on GMT hours

While the first point is annoying, it isn't really that much of a hit to my productivity.

For the second one, is a different story because that directly impacts my work. For that, though, the workaround is simple: never click edit when trying to change the starting and finishing hours, and instead hold tap the event in the day view and drag or resize the event on screen as needed.

A question is:

How else is this bug affecting you that I should be wary of?

PS.

I have to say that this situation kind of reminds me when I used Gentoo Linux and had to read a lot to figure out what to tweak to make things work.. I switched to the Apple ecosystem and successfully stopped managing systems and turned them into productive tools. Disgracefully I've started seeing these kind of "wrinkles" more and more and it just makes me figure What's going on and to hope it doesn't become too common

For God's sake people, read the earlier messages!

A dozen people come on here every day saying "I've solved the problem!" and it's always something that someone already tried two months ago and has been demonstrated to NOT solve the problem.

The problem can only be solved by Apple in an OS update. Period.

For the last time, this is not a Google problem! This is happening to Exchange calendars that's exist completely outside of the Google ecosystem. Stop spreading false propaganda. This is an Apple bug. Period.