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

Sorry I don't buy that argument. IOS was able to translate the GMT time with no issues until iOS 8.x. Something called regression testing is a basic part of QA that was not performed where new code causes issues to crop up that were previously addressed.

its a bug pure and simple

I wasn't aware that this was happening on 6 and 6+. Thank you for the info. My issues are the GMT issues, as it did not exist previous to four months ago, when I did an iOS update. I've been through every configuration and setting possible and the challenges remain. When I set a meeting with a different time zone from where I am physically present, I have to add the meeting, close the event and go back into the meeting to change the time zone from GMT. Otherwise, my meeting times are not right. I travel globally and calendaring my meeting and flight times has never been a problem. Trust me, this is a recent iOS update issue.

My guess is that your user account was migrated back to a server that has its clock set to the same time zone your device's clock is set to. Accounts get migrated from one set of physical hardware to another automatically from time to time as part of most large ISP's load-balancing operations. Many people had this GMT Bug show up on their devices....without them doing anything....as mysteriously as it has now just disappeared from yours. Load balancing would easily explain both scenarios.

Also you know what they say...a problem that goes away on its own can come back on its own. I hope yours never comes back.

By responses so far, the "fixed" calendars are exclusively those syncing using Google Calendar, not MS Exchange. This pretty much confirms that some change was made on the Google system, not anything in iOS.

Congrats to all of you. Seriously that is great that Google stepped up and did something to fix this. The rest of us who use Exchange, are still screwed for the time being.

I'm here to confirm that I no longer see GMT in my events that I create from iPhone 6 Plus iOS 8.1.3. Google Calendar (CalDAV).

People at the Google forum are rejoicing as well.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!topi c/calendar/CaPn0hLOU0c%5B176-200-false%5D

Who flicked the switch or fixed this is anybodies guess.

I can confirm (for the moment... being overly cautious here) that the GMT bug has disappeared from my iDevices. I have an iPhone 5s and iPad Air using Google calendars to sync with the Calendar app.

But, I don't think the latest iOS update (8.1.3) fixed the problem. The day that it was released, I updated and tested and I *still* had the GMT problem. I was still having to manually fix appointments until TODAY. So, something else fixed the problem and I'd hazard a guess to conclude that it was thanks to Google.

JG in SB, sorry that you are still having problems with Exchange. You've been the official leader of this months-long charge against Apple and I want to thank you for your tireless advocacy!!! I'm hoping for a swift resolution from Microsoft for you and all the other Outlook users. If I was still managing multiple calendars for Executives traveling around the world, I might have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. As it was, my own personal calendar was such a pain in the *** to keep straight (and I don't have that much of a life these days!!!).

I have a public calendar on my iPad which, unfortunately, is still showing the GMT issue. This calendar, I believe, is syncing with Google. However, when I manually enter an event into my iphone 6 + or IPad Air 2 the GMT issue is gone. This is great, however I am somewhat upset my public calendar is still showing GMT.

Another oddity is that the previous appointments that had the GMT "barnacle" still exhibit the strange behavior of only showing the GMT time (as opposed to the time that was used to set the original event) when the event is edited. That, to my mind, is the perfect example of buggy behavior.

Hoping for resolution for you soon JG in SB!

@backgammoner @karnfar Your information is appreciated and is possibly helpful for those using Google. The frustration comes when people claim (as Kamfar did) "we determined that it was not the IOS calendar but rather my Google calendar". That incorrect assertion ignores the dozens and dozens of posts on this thread where people who never ever use Google for anything have the same exact GMT "problem" or "bug". When people using exchange servers have the exact same problem it can't be a "google calendar issue". It IS an Apple issue but Google has (per a number of sources) done a work around on their end to help their Google customers. That's terrific!! Well done Google!! But the "bug" persists for everyone else not using Google.

My point exactly, backgammoner. IOS Calendar was updated with IOS 8. Google's calendar was still using parameters of IOS 7. When Google got on board with the new IOS and its "work arounds," the problem of GMT disappeared except for past events. I am not laying blame to any company. There are always issues with 3rd party apps with an Apple update, but as with the Google calendar, other calendar apps may have the same issue dealing with the new IOS. Either way the solution I found works when you have Google and Apple calendars on the same device. I only wish it would work for other calendar apps. I wrote my post not "blame" Google, but rather offer a solution that worked for me.

Sent from my iPhone 6

@KarnFar: I think your post is helpful as to providing a method for people to fix previous appointments that were messed up by Apple's bug. I agree with bcutty that it is unhelpful and misleading to state that "this problem was due to Google Calendar." The fact that this bug persists for everyone OTHER THAN Google users, sort of confirms that it is Google who changed something on their back end. Exchange users still have the bug in 8.1.x but Apple developers running 8.2 on the very same day, and syncing to Exchange, don't have it. How can that be true if the bug isn't generated by code present in iOS 8.1.x that has now been fixed in iOS 8.2?

As an iPhone 5 user with both a Google Calendar and Exchange calendar synced to my device, I've been experiencing this problem for the last few months just like everyone else here, looking desperately for a fix or workaround. I have waited a few days before posting, monitoring this thread to see if others have had the problem clear up. I myself am no longer experiencing any GMT timezone problem, with no change being done on my part. Neither my Google or Exchange calendars have any problem when creating or syncing new or past events. I noticed the change a few days after updating to iOS 8.1.3, which MIGHT (but might not) be when the change occurred. I simply wanted to add to the conversation that I've seen both types of calendars get "fixed" at the same time, which to me means it was more Apple's problem than anyone else's. I am happy that the problem appears "resolved" for me, and hope it never reoccurs in the future!

Hi jaw444 - I think your question strays from the original problem presented in this post (and my responding to another poster's question about google calendar freezing may not have helped, so mea culpa...)

If this is helpful to you and your daughter, here is my response to your question: I continue to use the Google Calendar for a couple of reasons: 1) synch and refresh time are significantly faster for me with the Google Calendar than the iCloud Calendar, 2) I'm used to it and prefer not to change, and 3) Google's web / laptop interface has a couple more views and settings options than iCloud's Calendar, so I feel a bit more in control of my user experience. So, to me it is preferred enough to spend a few hours searching online for an answer rather than exporting from Google Calendar and importing to another calendar, like iCloud's. I don't know if I would lose anything, like recurring appointment information, as I have not tried.

If your daughter wishes to add a default calendar different from her current, and only, iCloud calendar, she would need to add her account first, whether it be and exchange, google, yahoo or other account: Settings / Mail, Contacts, Calendars / ACCOUNTS / Add Account After input-ing her account data, and which services to synch on her phone (mail, calendar, contacts, etc..), then she would designate that new calendar as her default: Settings / Mail, Contacts, Calendars / CALENDARS <-- scroll all the way to the last category / Default Calendar

Hey there, you can set up a second calendar in GCal with the other timezone

and toggle between the two. This might help you out.

Otherwise, as your phone updates with the time based on your location, so

too would the calendar event (in theory). I recall testing this out awhile

back, but now with so many iterations and this bug, something might have

gotten knocked around.

Events are always displayed in the calendar's current time zone, but the time zone itself is only visible in Settings. IF the event was created with a different time zone, then that time and time zone are displayed in parentheses. The day view looks a little different than the detail view. This is harder to explain than it is to see. Just try it.