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

I guess that I am having the same problem as everyone here, or something slightly different? At first glance when I look at Calendar on my iPhone or iPad in "text" view (?), the times are all correct. If I click on any individual entry, I get the correct time AND another line with GMT. More of a nuisance than anything, some other folks here have flat out incorrect times and that would just make me nuts so I am feeling for those Community members. From what I have followed so far on this issue, there is no fix or workaround, not sure Apple has even admitted to an issue versus this being an "enhancement". I have been so focused on a completely different issue with iOS8 for close to two months (see "IOS 8 won't sync music with iTunes"), also with no resolution from Apple or the Community yet, but I just noticed this issue as well. So I thought I would chime in, introduce myself, let you all know that I am following this string now, and I am hoping to help and/or be helped. Thanks.

I went to the Genius bar at my local apple store here in NJ. Two people said they have never heard of this and they do not think it is an IOS issue, HA! Don't they read these posts? My internal IT manager has contacted both Google (since we run off of Google Apps) and Apple and nothing. Amazing that a company like Apple with a current valuation of almost 700 Billion (and the worlds highest valued company) can't fix a tiny issue like this. Our company runs over 200 apple devices, both on iPads and Phones. This is very frustrating...

rwsales2 wrote:

Apple with a current valuation of almost 700 Billion

Unfortunately, that means they can afford to ignore us.

IMO, before mobile devices were big, Apple was always trying to be better. They wanted to win customers away from PC and wanted to show them that the experience could be much easier and more friendly. Now, they don't need to compete in the same way anymore. They don't have as much to prove. Every teen will buy the new iPhone just because it's the new iPhone. It seems as though Apple is getting lazy, spreading itself too thin across too many markets, has put image and marketing before reliability, and is no longer what it used to be to some of its loyal customers.

/rant (sorry, this is becoming a very frustrating and worrying issue when execs are now missing meetings)

Sorry, no, that doesn't work for the rest of us. It just means you had an ADDITIONAL problem; you didn't have your time zone set right in Gmail.

If you look back at the thread, you'll see that that's not it.

That may be helpful for some, but many business users are frequent travelers who need to have automatic time zone turned on when they move between different zones. Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, the above solution for Google related issues does not address the people who experience this problem and use a corporate exchange account.

I'm curious if some people are actually solving the calendar issue shown in the youtube video or if they're just resolving other settings they had misconfigured.

Dave, I would love to try your fix, but for some reason setting up a google calendar using the Exchange option on the iPhone and iPad isn't working for me.

I am able to delete my google calendar from the phone, and then follow your directions, setting it up anew as an exchange account. And, when I finish setting it up, the account verifies itself. (The little checkmarks momentarily appear, indicating that the password is correct, etc.)

Once I do that, if I go to Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendars, I see my gmail account listed in the list of accounts, and Mail, Calendars and Reminders are all selected. Mail days to sync is listed as 1 week. In advanced settings, "Use SSL" is selected. S/MIME is not.

So all seems to be in order. But when I go to Calendar, and select "Calendars" at the bottom of the page, the google calendar is not in the list. And, my calendar is not populating with events from the google calendar.

Any idea what my problem might be? I'm running IOS 8.1.1, it's an Iphone 6, and I use Exchange for my work email on it just fine. Same result with the iPad.

I suspect that your solution may work only for Google Apps for Work, Education, and Government users.

I am not a Google Apps user. I suspect, as I mentioned, that your solution only works for Google Apps users.

The CalDAV option doesn't work for me (and won't work for anyone, I'll bet) because, in fact, CalDAV is what the "Gmail" option uses. The bug is in CalDAV, which is why connecting using the Gmail option exhibits the bug.

Joe, thank you for the detailed reply. All the settings look correct. Just so you can understand here are some screen shots of what happens when my appointments created in Outlook get synced to iOS 8.1.1 Calendar. The entry shows up in the correct slot on the calendar but if I try to edit the appointment, I can't change the time zone from GMT. The appointment shows the correct time zone in Outlook and on Google Calender so something is happening to change to the GMT time zone on iOS. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. BTW, I never used iCloud to sync as it required me to create a new, non-default calender in Outlook and that doesn't work for me. Google allowed me to sync my default Outlook calendar.

Thanks, JG. Saved me a bunch of work. When I get home tonight, I will set up a calendar sync on my iPhone 4 that is still on iOS 7 and see what happens. That would be pretty definitive proof of the bug if those calendar entries are correct.

I will try all that with my iPhone 4 and report back. gSyncit is a program that syncs my Outlook default calender with my Google Calender. It works really well. that way I can keep my calender in Outlook and also on my iDevices.

BTW, does anyone know if this happens if you use a third party Google calendar app on your phone? I see an app like CalenMob and was wondering if anyone has tried anything like it or another program that is supposed to sync directly with Google.I may give it a try.I will report back if I do.

I just down loaded a month's worth of calendar events to test of the new iOS will allow me to sync across all my devices and now the stupid thing put everything in the default calendar with no option to choose one or even create a new one, Steve Jobs would be turning in his grave if he new how poorly apple was doing things these days.

Well, something is very sideways here because I hadn't experienced this problem at all until a couple of days ago, when it suddenly manifested - with me making absolutely no changes in software or settings. How does that make any sense?

I use Google Calendar, and when I add appointments on my iPhone or iPad, they are GMT on those devices, but not on the master calendar. Which makes me hopeful that someday if apple fixes this everything will go back to normal.... Yeesh....

I am having the same problem. Whenever I create an event on my Gmail calendar using my iPhone or iPad, iOS adds GMT to everything. Events that are created on Gmail using my PC do not have this issue. It is only when I create events on an iDevice.

I suspect this is Google trying to stick it to Apple. I wish I were joking. Google does things like this on purpose to get people to buy Androids.

While I agree with you that it is not just Gmail, why would it start appearing all of a sudden? I didn't change any settings, and I had it on both iOS 8.1.1 and now 8.1.2.

I disagree that it has been "proven."