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

Devinw wrote:

Just wanted to say I'm having this issue. Fixing the events on a per-event basis is not an acceptable solution. Apple PLEASE fix this annoying bug!

Pleading with Apple here will not do any good. No one here works for Apple. We are all volunteer users. If you want Apple to hear you contact them. There's a link at the bottom of the page.

4. Editing the event shows ONLY the GMT times (This is the big problem! The PDT times do NOT display when editing the event)

Yes, indeed, this is the biggest problem. When inviting others, it sends the event in GMT. I have to manually correct each event in order to have normal function.

I can confirm that this "works."

However, it is a clumsy workaround and not a solution, since it has to be done with every appointment or event one enters.

Wow.. One would assume there would be a 1 or 2 actual Apple people on their very own "Support Community" website. Good to know.

The only ones here from Apple are the Hosts who respond to reported violations and to posts that go unanswered after 24 hours. Other than that everyone participating here are users like yourself.

Ok, here is what I did and it is PERFECT!

i Said if the apple guys don't want to fix it, or can't fix it, whatever the case!

i Don't need to waste my time on this.

i Started to use SAISUKE again.

it is very user friendly and fast.

there is a free version too.

i am going to stick with it until somebody at Apple finds a way to fix this!

Glad that works for you. I would hardly describe this as "PERFECT" though...maybe a temporary workaround until Apple does their job. This solution is like using duct tape to stick a 3rd party speedometer on top of the dashboard of your nice new BMW because BMW can't manage to get the built-in speedometer to work. None of us should be forced to use duplicate functionality 3rd party apps to do something that is a built in functionality of iOS and that always used to work perfectly until Apple screwed it up.

I am going to keep working to put pressure on Apple until this is fixed. If we reach the point where Apple users are perfectly happy to just jury-rig their devices with whatever third-party apps are neccessary to make up for major deficiencies that Apple is unwilling to address, then iOS will basically have turned into Android and there will be no reason to spend more money on Apple devices. You can get a buggy experience like this one....and many more bugs that no-one get's around to resolving....on android platforms right now. And if you ask any Android user for a "solution" to whatever bug that happened to come up most recently their answer is "just use this other 3rd party app" or "just remember to subtract 8 hours from whatever your calendar shows...problem solved." As a result Google has zero motivation to try to fix anything fast because it's users are perfectly happy to live with bugs....they have come to expect them as normal....and/or relies on other companies to produce reliable software. Is this what we want to see happen with iOS? Not me.

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.

I just chatted with a Senior advisor on the Apple support team for a while. They seem to understand the problem but they wanted me to replicate it on a full fresh setup on the iphone 6 as well, which I could not do at the time because I am at work and don't have my USB cord. I'm told that after this step, the transcript will get pushed on to the "engineers". We shall see...

There is a work around that will disable the GMT. I posted it about 10 pages ago. Do a search for my user name, Gator5000e and you will find it. But to quickly summarize, create your appointment. Once the GMT appears, click edit to edit the appointment. Change the appointment to an ALL DAY appointment. Then immediately change it back. Once you do that the GMT will go away and you will be in your correct time zone. You then have to change the start and stop times for the appointment for your time zone because after you do the ALL DAY on/off, the start and stop times will be the GMT times. Just change y our start and stop times back to the ones you want and save the appointment. The GMT issue will be gone from that appointment.

Gator5000e, you are right that does work.. Interesting! Makes it quite obvious this IS a bug. I hope they will fix the **** thing soon.

Thanks for the tip though!! 😎

I just figured out how to stop this. Like all of you I have been using Google calendar and syncing it to iCal on my Mac and the iPhone calendar. I had no problem until upgrading my operating system. Then all of a sudden I get the annoying and inconvenient GMT on my iPhone (Never had a problem on the Mac). Fortunately for me my husband also gets my calendar on his iPhone and he did NOT have the problem after upgrading. I isolated the problem by comparing our set ups. The difference was this: in settings he made the default calendar his iCloud calendar- I had not, my default was my google calendar (I had not been using iCloud for my calendar). Anyway I changed the default to my iCloud home calendar and all the appointments stayed the same but the annoying GMT went away. Hope this helps everyone!

AEPU, where is the setting for "default calendar"? I don't see anything like that.

You are right that when using the iCloud calendar the GMT issue does not arise. However, unfortunately, if when you make a new calendar entry, and edit the calendar to put the appointment into (e.g. a google calendar), then the GMT issue pops right back up - edit issues and all.

Looking forward to an Apple fix for this...

Sorry- here's a follow up. If you change the default to iCloud it doesn't sync with google any more- all you will be using is the iCloud Calendar. So it is not exactly what we want as a fix.