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

Hi everyone,


Since updating my iPhone 4S to iOS 8, the Calendar app now shows all my newly added events with GMT times, and not the local time (as I am not in GMT, I am +9 hours). All my previous and existing entries are displaying normally. I have not changed any settings at all. However, if I open one of the new events and enter the events details screen, the local times are clearly displayed along with a GMT equivalent time underneath it.


I have tried changing settings but nothing shows my events in local time as it did before the upgrade to iOS 8. Any ideas? Is this a bug? Am I missing a new setting? Many thanks in advance for your help or advice.


Cheers,

James.

iPhone 4S, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 21, 2014 2:16 AM

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Posted on Sep 24, 2014 8:42 AM

Add some notes to this, I have managed to correct the issue by going to Settings, 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars' and changing the Time Zone Override to London which makes me think the phone thinks the iCal GMail calendar is set to the incorrect time zone (i.e. showing it in your time zone) however having checked the settings my personal calendar is fine. This should work fine until I travel abroad when i have to manually change the time zone override.


This is work in progress, I have gone into my Google calendar and checked the time settings and although set to GMT+00:00 London, I have ticked the display all zones box and changed it to GMT+00:00 GMT (No Daylight Saving) and turned off the above override on the phone and again this has resolved the problem. What I am unsure of is if this will work ok once the clocks change next month! I'll put a note in my calendar to test it.... hmm 😮

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Sep 24, 2014 8:29 AM in response to Kandids by Kelli

I also have a similar problem, I run 3 calendars which are all fine, however I updated my Gmail calendar which uses ICAL (other two use ActiveSync as Exchange & Outlook.com) and after changing the time it now shows an hour before the actual start time. If i open the appointment it shows me two times in the description, 6pm start to 11pm and 7pm to 12am, the 7pm to 12am is the correct time however the calendar shows it on my iPhone and iPad as 6pm (GMT). Any one else having problems?

Oct 8, 2014 3:57 AM in response to James Barber

Just wanted to chime in here and say I have the same problem. I use Google calendar for my main calendar for work. I live in Eastern Time zone, but am getting GMT times displayed next to the times in calendar view. When I go in to edit any of these times, I get GMT times displayed only which makes it very difficult to edit to say the least. I am really hoping this bug is fixed quickly. This is on a brand new Iphone 6 plus by the way. Not restored from any back up at all. Updated to ios 8.02.

Oct 26, 2014 8:30 AM in response to HLMiamiBeach

Before I saw this discussion thread I went to the Genius Bar and the gene is 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"


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

Nov 6, 2014 7:20 PM in response to JG in SB

Interesting, but your results are not quite the same as mine. In fact, they're the opposite.


If I create an appointment on an IOS device, it's fine, and propagates fine to my other IOS devices. If I create an appointment in Outlook (whether or not I'm using Exchange), it propagates to the IOS devices with the extra GMT timezone. I agree with you that it is related to the timezone override, though.

Nov 14, 2014 9:04 AM in response to RallyRex

The reason I chose Apple is because it was simple and worked, now it's just turning to crap, I've had nothing but problems since iOS 8 and this calendar thing is really screwing up my work as it's confusing all the people overseas I share it with!


I've tried everything started above and like others have said as soon as a named calendar syncs to my iPad or iPhone the GMT appears!

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