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

Awkward, but this worked for me. Thanks Angelitos

I noticed that when I am offline, it keeps the correct time. As soon as I go online, it updates to GMT so it must be interacting with a server to change it. Modifying the settings as suggested made no difference. I have not noticed this tidbit in the postings that I read. Interesting

When I use Google's preferred method I get the GMT issue when I use exchange I don't. I have three Exchange accounts and the only time I have seen this has been with GOOGLE calendars and NOT just with iOS. I have seen this for years which is why I chimed in. I am not sure why you have to get so personal in your posts you must be a miserable individual outside of an online forum where you can talk big. Anyway I digress guess what YOU are having this issue I am not, I figured out what works for me and ALL OF MY CLIENTS that was having the same issue. Not sure who the moron is supposed to be here because YOU are still having this problem not me. Maybe you need to brush up on some of those troubleshooting skills.

There is still no viable fix for iCal on iOS?

There are working instructions to fix this in iCal on Mac.
- System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendar, remove gmail account with the ➖ sign.
- Restart your computer.
- System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendar, add your gmail account (particularly calendar).
- Wait for the calendar to sync

I tried similar on my iPhone 4S and it doesn't work. 1/2 of this issue is taken care of, but weird that Apple hasn't pushed a fix yet for iPhone Cal

I did not make this claim, THEY did. I argued with them. Thanks. If you would like to call, I suggest going for 3rd level support. I just spent 3 hours.

I agree with you that Apple needs to fix it.

Seriously, give them a call. 800-694-7466.
I have the guy's number and extension who I talked to, and have to move on to other things, but do plan on calling him back. In the future, do you guys really want to focus on berating other people who are also looking for solutions? That's what you want to do? Make the forums an antagonistic place?? Interesting approach.

I never had this issue with events created on my iPhone, or on my Exchange calendar. I only had it happen when I added a new event on my iMac calendar, which would 90% of the time show up on my iPhone with the correct time but with GMT or CST in parenthesis. I have tried this repeatedly this morning and now it does not happen. I did not change anything else except went from Lion to Yosemite. I wanted Airplay which is why I did it. Lo and behold, as you said, my calendar must now be linked to a server within my time zone.

I looks to me that the calendar issue comes from the interaction between gmail calendars and Apple. If you go to your settings on your gmail calendar you will notice that all time zones use the acronym GMT. When this syncs with Apple it is being interpreted by Apple as Greenwhch Mean Time (GMT) which is currently 5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. After syncing with gmail the Apple calendar then displays both your local time zone and the GMT time zone which is very annoying. For me the event stays in the correct time zone on my gmail calendar but shows two time zones on my Apple devices. Unfortunately, I don't know the fix and I do not understand why all time zones in gmail use the GMT acronym.

I have now been on hold with apple 800 694-7466 for 11 minutes and the initial service person had never heard of the GMT bug. I will try to escalate . meanwhile very disheartening. This thread is 3 plus months old with almost 100k views and some 35o posts. Seems like someone is having a problem?

good luck.. I will try to report back if I get any response. My plan is to just report a complaint / concern. NOT fix my personal bug. I do not believe they can fix this thing over the phone. Brogan from Seattle.

One more detail about my recent call. She did suggest that this problem has only been happening since Gmail / Google has started "adding Time zone setting to their system in mid October.." I did point out that this is seems to be actually an iOS 8 issue starting at least on 9/21/2014 when this thread was started by James Barber.

So I hope the fix arrives.

My calendar is just GMTed back to October. Yikes

This issue is not limited to iOS8. As I mentioned upthread (I know it's a huge thread), I have this issue affecting my iPad, and I'm running iOS 7.1.2.

I tested this to be sure it wasn't iOS8 by deleting the calendars from my phone (running iOS8) entirely, entering a new event in iCal, and watching it sync to the iPad (running iOS7). Indeed I still get the GMT issue.

Not saying it's NOT Apple's issue, but it's definitely not an iOS8-only issue.

Whole Company is on Google Apps for Business. Anyone with an iDevice is having this problem and it is driving everyone crazy. I can't believe this post has so many views and apple can't solve it.

New Events, created in EST, opened two seconds later, time zone is "updated" to GMT. Who the **** cares about GMT time zone when 95% of meetings are in EST?

On my second call... My FOOLOW-UP Call. 21 mins so far. First was s Call director who chk dmd out and pushed me over to AppleCare. 10 min hold to get to person who has heard of this GMT bug ..I ask what is status on this...any hints on fix? Now on hold while she checking with IT guys and see if they have a workaround? so will update as I move along.

They did find my case number from 2 days ago.

Perhaps you have noticed that since Wed 12/31 to today 1/2 the views of this thread went up 6,000 to 102k. Wow people are at least looking in on this. Perhaps Apple will take a peak? I WILL suggest it.

Well 6 min holding ...

@bdomer: Sorry not working here. I followed all the steps....even the last one "pray."

I'll go in and edit an already-created appointment on my iPhone going through all these steps. Then I will look at the very same appointment on my iPad and it will have transposed itself to GMT. This what I have observed since day 1, the appointments are fine on the originating iOS device and they get jacked up on the receiving iOS device(s).

I think that your work around may be OK if you are just using a single iDevice in your setup. But for me, and other users that need appointments to sync reliably across multiple iOS devices....we are just on ice until Apple delivers the bug fix in an upcoming update.

I was wrong on the post to Angelinos. I tried this particular way and then the on/off all day switch and time change as otherwise suggested and found the on/off switch change to be the actual easiest temporary fix. I wrote the first post a little too soon. Like I said, after trying both methods for a period of time, it is now apparent- to me at least- that the on/off all day switch is the simplest work around and you will get used to it rather quickly.

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.

AEPU, under Settings: Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, the only settings under Calendars are:

Time Zone Override

Alternate Calandars

Week Numbers

Show Invitee Declines

Sync

Default Alert Times

Start Week On

Regardless, it sounds like you are suggesting not using any synced calendars (gmail, exchange, etc..), which is the crux of this bug. It's just ignoring the bug, not a workaround.