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

What you're seeing is the offset from GMT. To the best of my knowledge, Google (and many other apps) have always displayed timezones that way. Eastern is, for example, GMT- 5:00, meaning GMT minus 5 hours.

The issue is with Google Calendar & while I have no idea how to solve it, it is at least explained by Google Calendar here, as to why they use GMT always...

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/2367918?hl=en

I switched to an iPhone 6 from a 4s last week. I'm having the same issue as everyone else here. I've read through this and many other posts trying multiple things to fix the problem. The only thing that "works" are some of the workarounds listed here. Nothing really fixes the problem, and the workarounds are complete hassles for someone booking lots of appointments. I use the calendar for a busy work schedule and have too many appointments to go through and fix all of them individually. So far, I'm really disappointed in Apple and the new iPhone. There seem to be a lot of bugs.

Also, for the record, I have an iPad that I haven't updated the software on that doesn't show the GMT issue, and neither did my old iPhone 4s. However, if I create an appointment on my iPad it will show on my iPhone 6 with the GMT issue. Now I'm afraid to update the software on my iPad.

I have also gone to Google Calendar as a fix and it works just find. But I need to thank you I did not know you can make an icon for your home screen to take you right to the Google Calendar. With the icon I am not sure there is a reason to go back to Apples piece of crap calendar.

Farnarkler this problem is happening on my iPad. The only reason it doesn't also happen on my iPhone is because I left it on iOS 7, and only upgraded my iPad. I cant speak for 2 devices both running iOS 8, but this definitely happens across devices running that software.

I think they have an automated bot that does it. Happens WAY too fast be an actual human moderator.

In any case I noticed that several of the news story links on "that thing" got spaces inserted into them and don't work. You should edit "that thing" and make sure all the links work. Also include a link to the MacRumors story:

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/23/ios-8-gmt-calendar-bug/

I have provided links to "that thing" on the YouTube video, so if you search for "iOS GMT Bug" click on the YouTube video, you will see a link to "that thing" in the video description.

Let's see if this post gets deleted. If id does, you be sure Apple IS monitoring this. And it would be really disappointing to see that they have been paying attention to this thread all along and failed to step in and show any sort of leadership or responsiveness to their customers.

This is NOT a bug. While I agree that the behavior is a tad annoying at times, it is clear that the system is working exactly as intended - a bug would be behavior contrary to design. I will try to explain why:

I have two calendars added that are not iCloud calendars. One is an iCal file that I added manually, the other is a subscribed calendar. The manually added calendar (the 2014/15 NHL Schedule) was published in EST and the phone correctly imported the calendar and displays the events according to my local time zone. The subscribed calendar was published in GMT as are many of this type, yet again the events display correctly in my local time zone.

If I create an event in my local time zone then either travel to another time zone, or manually set my phone to another time zone, lo and behold the phone exhibits the same behavior - times are listed in my original time zone and editable in my original time zone (this is very handy if you are away on business but need to update an event for when you return to the office).

Google calendars store all events (evidently) in GMT and display them to the users according to their timezone setting on the website or in the appropriate app. Since iOS has no way of knowing to which time zone your Google account is set, it displays the events in local time but they are editable in GMT.

So, if this isn't a bug, what is it? Well, the community clearly desires a different behavior from the product and therefore this is a feature request or requirement. Unfortunately, bugs will take precedence over new features in future software releases so if Apple is aware that users are unhappy with this NORMAL behavior it may take a while before it is changed.

Because that is how it is designed. Events are being changed into Google's default time zone for compatibility purposes. What you want is to be able to set the default time zone for your individual Google calendar to always show your local time zone, since this feature does not exist it is a user requirement NOT a bug.

Yup. I updated both iPhone and iPad to 8.1.3 today and this bug persists. Maybe in 8.2 but frankly I feel like Apple just doesn't care about this. Assuming it comes in 8.2 that will be nearly 6 months after it originated. They are happy to let us all deal with this BS for that long? I bet if you call AppleCare 2 weeks from now they will still tell you "We have never heard of this issue before!"

You got it.

Yes, one of the other symptoms of the GMT bug is that iOS calendar events that span across the 12am (local time) time slot --- say an event that starts at 7am GMT, but starts at 10pm PST (local time for me) .. when EDITING that event in the calendar -- causes the event to "jump down" to the bottom of the screen and locks up the screen (almost like it is "off the screen"). I have to touch another time block on my calendar to "cancel the EDIT".

I have seen this behavior on my iPad Air2 -- and I think my iPhone 6. This behavior NEVER happen with iOS 7.x versions and definitely has something to do with the event being in GMT on my device and crossing the 12am threshold.

Apple's QA/test processes should have caught this... along with the original GMT Bug --- but apparently they seem to feel this is acceptable (for now ).

I started having this problem a couple days ago. When I create an event on my iPhone 5 in my gmail calendar with the current iOS in my time zone (EST) the event gets changed to GMT. I have to go in and edit each entry to get it back to EST. My iCloud time zone is and always was set in EST. Thanks for working on this. I hope a solution will be posted soon. I just updated iOS today, but the problem persists. I see other discussion forums on this topic suggest that the problem is not widespread and/or the result of some settings being off. But the the problem is much bigger.

The thing that we need to remember is, all calendar synchronizations were working just fine - UNTIL AN IOS UPDATE came out and has since caused this "GMT bug". It is not like there has been a GMT bug since the beginning of time. This is relatively recent (though been going on for too long now).

My point is; THIS PROBLEM IS DUE TO A RELATIVELY RECENT CHANGE BY APPLE. If Apple wanted too, they can go back to that release, compare relevant code changes against prior version and they'd know. But, I suspect they already know and the change was intentional for whatever reason, however, it has had this (hopefully) unintentional side-effect that is a major issue for users with mixed environments.

Thanks to all who have been working this and pushing for a resolution.

If you enter a start time and an end time, for example, 10 AM start and 11 AM end, and then a few days later the time of your meeting is moved back an hour and you go to edit the appointment and see the times in GMT times of 4 PM start and 5 PM end, how can you say that isn't a bug? Even if the GMT time shows in addition to your normal time, the times displayed when editing the time of an appointment should be in the times you entered, not in GMT time.

OK, how about this..... What do you think would happen if I walk down to the street outside my office right now, and ask 100 people the following:

1. Do you think that when you enter an event in your calendar at 2pm PST, that when you later go to edit that event, or look at it on another device, that it should remain at 2pm PST, so that it is consistently at the time you intended to have the event show in your calendar; or,

2. Do you think that when you enter an event in your Calendar, that your calendar should convert that event to a time zone that is 8 hours different than the one you are in, and that you should have to look at totally different times than the ones you intended to set up the event for when you edit it, remembering that the times you are editing are 8 time zones away and may even be on a different day than you put the event on, since really, even though they are 8 time zones away they are still technically the same "times?"

I speculate 0% of respondents would choose 2, because NO ONE EXPECTS A CALENDAR TO BEHAVE LIKE THIS. I don't care if Apple had 3 full pages "documenting" this, no-one expects a calendar to work that way. And BTW Apple has ZERO documentation of this which sort of indicates this is something that even Apple did not expect or anticipate.

It's unexpected and unintended behavior.

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Having the same issue -- it doesn't sound like Apple is going to resolve the issue any time soon. Mine only started happening when I did the Latest OX Yosemite "upgrade" to my MacBook and synced it to my iPhone. They are still saying it's a gmail/google issue through the Apple tech support line. I was speaking to a Senior Advisor who said it was a google issue. 😕

I need an upgrade to my upgrade..