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

@rajshree: Yup! I'm in Santa Barbara, California.

@OkPanky: As strange and coincidental as it may seem, I really do think that maybe your account got migrated to a different server around the same time as, or at exactly the same time as you did your upgrade. Maybe there is something in your service provider's load balancing algorithm that caused your account to get migrated when the server saw this "new" client (i.e. your newly upgraded OS iMac) connecting for the first time? Pure speculation but that could explain it. And in my experience, the simplest explanation is almost always the correct explanation 🙂.

I can also attest that this doesn't resolve the issue. I have been running Yosemite for several months now, and the problem arose after the upgrade to 10.10.

However, I hope that this continues to work for you.

I am having the same problem with my calendar events converting to GMT on my iPhone 6+ and my iPad. I spent over an hour on the phone tonight with three different senior Apple care advisors trying to trouble shoot the issue but with no success. When is Apple going to come out with a fix for this?

JG, so this AM I have a few events on my iPhone that have added CST in parenthesis. I also have an added issue of when I add an event on my iCal, it just shows up as NEW EVENT on my phone, but the name of the event does not. I may just ONLY work on my iPhone and avoid the Calendar program as this seems to be my problem. If my Exchange OWA were more user friendly, I'd definitely use that, but it is not a good calendar to work with.

I have this problem too and it seems to also have begun around the time of the update to iOS 8. However, I googled the issue and found many, many listings in various forums describing the same problem with dates going back as far as 2009. I stopped in at the Apple store and asked one of the floor techs about it. She told me I was the second person that day to ask about it, but she didn't know the answer and referred me to the Genius Bar. When I have the time I'll make an appointment and do that, and if they can fix it I'll post it here.

If one floor rep at the Apple store had two customers ask about the issue in one day, seems likely there will have been a lot of customers who asked in one day for all the floor reps combined, those stores have a lot of floor reps plus add to that the times per day the 'geniuses' who were asked about it. That would be a lot of inquiries per week. And different people on this thread have different manifestations of the problem, which is consistent with a code mess in combination with different set ups.

It seems that Apple is not bothered to reply to this massive thread. It would be nice to know if Apple is working on a fix for the next release or ignoring this problem and trying to push folks to use their native iCloud calendar through under handed tactics. Irrespective of their motivation, it is clear nothing is happening on the resolution front.

Can anyone recommend a third party app that does what the native app does (or does not, in this case)? Paid or free? Any battery drain issues with the recommendations? I use Google for my calendar, so that's my primary motivation for switching the apps.

I read someone ask why folks are not using the native iCloud calendar and going with Google/Microsoft/etc... I don't speak for all, but I like to "distribute" my risk across vendors. I use Google for contacts and calendar (For calendar, I do like the web interface of Google that allows me to set up recurring stuff for odd rules). I do include my contacts in iCloud backups for secondary safety. I use Hotmail for email, which mercifully still provides push notifications.

This may be considered a separate issue and may largely be "cosmetic" meaning that it doesn't affect functionality but in addition to the GMT issue, my alerts are now reversed.

So, for instance, I set one alert for 1 hour before and the 2nd one for 30 min before. In my appointment, now the first alert is 30 minutes before the event and the second alert is 1 hour before the event. I do not know if that matters as long as it functions properly but now ALL of my alerts for any appt entered via Google or via phone are whackadoodle like that.

Whatever Apple did in this last update pretty much garbled the entire calendar functionality. Sheesh.

Apple's alternative is to use the iCloud Calendar. Makes me wonder if what we're experiencing is a deliberate code change to make people switch over without the PR nightmare (instead a Service/Tech Support nightmare).

- I started out using MS Outlook Calendar, but couldn't get that to sync with my phone and computer at the time.
- iCloud Calendar did not exist.
- The workaround alternate cal was GCal with the ability to sync the way I needed.

Over time, working with start ups and small businesses, they tend to use Google Tools, which makes GCal the most convenient to use (except on my lap/desktop because I have to have a browser tab open). So, though I can switch to another calendar now (export GCal file), I am rather mired in GCal for other reasons.

It has been suggested that I add GCal as a subscription, but that means making my GCal public.

- On my phone, I'm trying out GCal's app, Sunrise and Fantastical until Apple figures things out, if they figure things out..

... and the world goes round.

This 'bug' has been bugging me for weeks. Finally decided to do something about it today and found this thread. Thanks, everyone, for the work you've put in to diagnosing the problem. I sent feedback to Apple. Hopefully they resolve this issue sooner than later.

Hi JG in SB: thanks for all the clear posts. I have sent feedback to apple. can not believe this thread started this fall and still problem is there.I am really trying to remain an Apple customer supporter but this is making that hard. Thanks again, Brogan from Seattle

well heck the customer service woman came back on phone after 15 mins to fix just my problem...started telling me to go to Settings. I interrupted her with " no I want apple to fix the systemic problem" she said lets fix your problem, I said I do not believe we can fix over the phone, ..at this point I got several " well Honey...we can.."

At this point I said can you please escalate me. Back on hold for 24 mins so far.

I guess I was a little short with the first person. Will report...

Well, having read through the ENTIRE thread, I have not seen a single reply from Apple. Hmm, I guess that since my new company is offering me a phone, perhaps I should try the spiffy new Android device. I am personally against this, but seriously, I have tried EVERY single one of the suggestions on this. I have deleted, re-created, changed settings, verified settings, created an iCloud account (don't f'n want one, but ***)....seriously done with this. Going to go back to a pen and paper version of a calendar for my work schedule. When I set an event up on my iPhone AND select the timezone I want....it STILL changes the event to GMT. So, either I need to move to London, or switch phones, cuz, I'm done with this issue.

9/21 until 12/31 with no reply from Apple on this issue. NOT impressed. And I am an evangelist since '86.

JG: thanks for the support. I do hope things are moving forward. Good thoughts on Apple Care system. At this moment, 45 minutes from my call I am still hopefully waiting for the follow up email contact from the Apple Care woman... she said she'd email me with some links and contacts.... I will hang on a while more.

And thanks for the suggestions to get this issue onto some media sources...good idea. Brogan

Well that is too bad. It does seem incredible that anyone within Apple would at least heard rumors about this? Or heck even experienced it? ..or don't they all have iPhones? maybe use like a Daytimer and pen for calendar stuff?? Ha?

And as you read my post I did get the first response of " What's That GMT? " ..only after escalation did I get a change of attitude. So for me that was positive....of course right now it is almost an hour after she told me she would send an email with contacts, etc...chkd my junk box...maybe it is coming "soon" but via GMT time??ha!...just kidding??