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

Before I saw this discussion thread I went to the Genius Bar and the genius there told me she had never seen this problem before and found it very strange that my phone was automatically sent to Cupertino time she had "never heard of that" being a default time zone for an apple product!!

She called for her genius supervisor and he said this was clearly a problem with the exchange server and had nothing to do with the Apple software.

I too am more disappointed that Apple wont own this problem as a software glitch and rather points fingers to the exchange serve, etc.

This bug is driving me crazy! It is very obvious that this is an Apple issue - with iOs8 - and Apple needs to correct it. I had no problem on my last iPhone (4S) because I never upgraded to iOs8. I now have an iPhone 6, and NOW I have the problem. Please address this issue, Apple. It is a major flaw... Really - major.

i have exactly the same problem which your You Tube video described to perfection. As you recommend I wrote to Apple to report their IOS 8 bug. Now what? We're stuck until they acknowledge and correct the problem. Could take forever

I am having this issue but it's a bit different than Sandy's. I use Outlook 20120 and Google Calendar. I sync the two to my iOS devices with gSyncit. If I create a calendar entry on my Outlook calendar, it shows fine there. But when it syncs thru to Google to my iOS devices, I have the GMT time entry showing in the box and it's the only time zone option if I go to edit one of these.

On the other hand, if I create the calendar entry on one of my iOS devices, or if I create it in Google Calendar online, and then sync it to Outlook, everything looks as it should. There is no GMT showing and the time zone if I try to edit the entry on my iOS device is the Eastern Time Zone (which it should be for me).

So creating an entry in Outlook and then syncing to Google Calendar creates the GMT problem on my iOS devices (the GMT does not show up in Google Calendar, BTW).

Creating the calender entry in Google Calender online or in my iOS devices, does not appear to create the GMT problem on my iOS devices.

So it seems something happens when the appointment data is going from Google Calender to iOS to add the GMT stuff.

this actually just started happening and it's really a pain in the butt. Has anyone tried a full restore, set up as a new phone to see if it solves the problem?

Exactly my problem, as well and Apple doesn't acknowledge the problem as theirs. Very frustrating. I figured out if you push down on the appointment and when it turns dark green, you can slide it up or down to a new time slot and not have to go to edit and then have to go through all that BS with GMT.

Then you've also read that Exchange Servers and several other systems have the exact same problem, not just Google.

Since there was no problem before iOS8, and it's only iOS8 devices that are affected, it's pretty evident that it has something to do with iOS8.

I'm glad it's not a problem for you with Hotmail, but what has to happen is for some smart programmers to see what is happening with these systems and figure out what needs to be adjusted.

When you point to the time zone of the server, are you talking about the system time zone or the time zone of your personal calendar settings? I understand what you are saying.... I am having a hard time squaring my downgrade of iOS and problem still manifesting itself.I did the upgrade yesterday and I didn't make any appointments after my upgrade until the one I made today and saw the bug. And I have made a few on 8.1.1 and I have not seen this bug when on that previous version.

I went ahead and changed the time zone of my hotmail calendar to PST from CST, and it works fine. I guess Hotmail is not providing my calendar zone to iOS.

I guess I can attach my google account to my wife's phone (which is working fine) and check it out.

Actually I saw this bug with a client that had nothing to do with iOS a program that shared its appointments to the users google apps calendars all 10 of those users on the google side showed GMT for the time zone. these people did not have their calendar shared with any iOS device.

One of the reasons I think Chevy is way out of line is that when many people state their specific experiences in a detailed manner, we might find a clue to help us. In my experience with this issue, Google is not involved at all and it still happens to me. So that makes me conclude that it is not a Google specific issue. In my case, the entries created on iCal are what causes the issue for me, and not on my Exchange calendar. So I have to believe it is in fact an Apple problem.I just keep updating my OSX and iPhone in the hope it will be corrected.

Thank you OkPanky. I was not trying to confuse the issue. I was just pointing out that I also had the GMT issue but in a different manner than some others. IOS 8 is the common thread. As a matter of fact, as I stated in my post, when I enter an appointment in Google Calendar there is no GMT issue on my iPhone when that appointment syncs with it. The GMT issue only occurs when the appointment is entered either on my iPhone or in Outlook. So it would appear that Google Calendar does not cause the problem.

FYI: The user I support who is experiencing this issue has upgraded from an iPhone 5s to an iPhone 6. He said this problem immediately migrated to the new phone when he transferred his account data. So, in case we weren't already sure: a new phone WILL NOT fix this.

@JG in SB: I think we're saying the same thing -- you need to re-select the start time in your local time (see the parens in my post above) after changing the time zone. My point is that, up until now, I didn't see anything acknowledging that you could simply edit the post -- extra steps though it may be. (Of course, I did not read all posts in all 13 pages.) However, I saw posts that talked about deleting events in your calendar and re-entering them. There would never be a reason to do that, right?

Follow-up: In other words, when I first enter the appointment, the time zone says "Chicago," but it changes to GMT (with a Chicago time zone location) after I hit "Done." When I edit the appointment back to Chicago time, it sticks. Thus, the issue is with the default, not with the ability to choose your time zone -- at least for me.

Yes, thank you JG in SB! That's exactly what I meant. I know for certain that I created appointments last week (after I had upgraded to iOS 8.1.1) and the events are correct with no GMT add-on. It was only yesterday that I noticed the GMT change. At first i thought it was a bug related to creating an event from an email or online service like Evite/Paperless Post, but the bug manifests when I create the event originally on my iPhone. I upgraded to iOS 8.1.2 yesterday and that did not fix the problem.

Some more points to add:

1. By default, I use my gmail acct to create appointments on my iPhone calendar

2. All new appointments using gmail acct have the GMT add-on.

3. This GMT anomaly only appears on my iDevices (iPhone & iPad).

4. When I check the entry on the Web version on Google calendar on my MacBookPro, I see no reference to GMT.

5. If I switch it to iCloud calendar and create a new event on my iPhone, the GMT add on never appears.

Here's hoping we get some resolution soon.

This is NOT just a Google issue. Many of us do not use Google at all and have the same issue. Again, if I create an event in iCal on my iMac, it goes to my Exchange OWA with no issue but when it reached my iPhone, GMT or CST appear 99% of the time. Once in a blue moon it won't. Point being, it's not specifically Google.