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

Create an event with the New York time and New York City as the time zone. When the calendar has a different time zone (based on the iOS time zone or Time Zone Override if that is on) your NYC event will appear at the adjusted time for that time zone (e.g. 3 hours earlier in San Francisco). The original time and time zone of the event will be displayed in parenthesis when it is different from the time zone of the calendar. It's a nice feature now that it has been fixed and works properly in iOS 8.2. Try it by creating an event and manually adjusting the iOS time zone.

This issue is NOT resolved by a restore from backup nor a restore as new. This thread, and others like it, confirm that a restore does not resolve this issue.

Clearly an iOS 8 bug that still isn't being addressed. None of the recommended superficial fixes correct the issue. It's simply (and sadly) bad code.

The bug did not start today. I have been experiencing it for at least 2 weeks now. Since probably 8.1. I updated to 8.1.1 and 8.1.2 the day they came out. No difference.

I switched to Sunrise Calendar. It's free and much better than the stock IOS calendar app and does not exhibit any of the time zone problems. It's certainly worth a look.

I have a ticket opened with Apple. They just told me this feature is "by design". I'm waiting to hear back on how to turn this off.

From Apple tech support.

""I [the technician] replicated the issue on my iPhone. Took screenshots and sent it to them [the Engineers],"

Apple can't say they don't know about the bug.

Interesting that the same bug affects Yosemite and still is present in the latest beta release of 10.10.2. I filed a bug report on this using Feedback Assistant.

Yes. Apple can. However, it will be several months before we hope to see this fixed. The current hope is April. Circa iOS 8.2.

FWIW it appears new events created post-8.1.3 are not being affected yet by the GMT bug when I edit them. Events created before I upgraded to 8.1.3 are still obviously affected.

New events no longer show GMT for me (iOS 8.1.3 w/ Google fix). I hope the Apple fix will display correct event time like it does on OS X Yosmite calendar.

Ever since iOS 8 was released all events created in any of my 5 i-devices default to CDT for the time zone, despite the phone being set to EST. Time zone support is not enabled; however, enabling it and setting timezone to EST does not solve the problem. When display events in grid mode, they display 1 hour off. When displaying in list mode, the times are accurate to EST. Only events created on the I-Device are affected. Events created directly in Outlook or OWA display the correct times. This huge bug needs to be corrected!

I made a reply saying I had resolved it by changing my Gmail calendar - this did however it made the webmail wrong so now rely on time zone over ride and only view appointments via IOS not add or edit as i don't trust it to be correct.

I know someone mentioned reporting it to Apple, has anyone (will assume no reply as no) and does anyone know how? I have not reported it.

GIven the few people on the thread compared to say Bluetooth pairing issues (which I also have issues amongst other things) I can't help but think our voices won't be heard!!

Is it just me, an avid apple fan, but are these updates getting worse and more like dare I say it Microsoft with dodgy un tested and finished updates? Maybe we should not start that debate!! I'll be waiting for 9.1 next time before upgrading! On a plus note, 8.1 should be out by the 20th October in UK.

Thanks

I did this - now waiting to see if it has a positive effect. Not sure that it will as logging into iCloud showed me that it thought I was in a different timezome altogether - so a 3rd one! That is now set to New Zealand too, so I will see...

Thanks for the heads up!

I am having the same issue (occuring on an iPad with iOS 8.1). None of the suggested solutions work for me.

All is fine when I add events on either the iPad or Google's web interface. Only when I add an event using my android phone it shows up on the iPad with the GMT time added. I am in CET/Amsterdam myself.

Suggested diagnosis: So I would suppose my phone somehow creates events with something of a GMT 'footprint' somewhere on Google's server. Google's web interface and the phone itself simply show the CET time as desired, but some 'feature' in iOS makes the iPad also show the GMT time. This doesn't occur with events created through Google's web interface or the iPad, as these don't create the GMT 'footprint' on the server.

Suggested solution: Apple removing the feature of also showing the GMT time, or my android application stopping creating that GMT 'footprint' in the first place.