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

For MacBook iCal, remove your Google calendar completely, restart your computer then re-add your Google calendar and give it time to sync.

If you use iCal on your phone, and enter a new event there, the GMT issue will still be there.

*Sent from my phone. Please forgive spelling/grammar errors, and know I don't mean to sound short.

Hi,

The only calendar I found is "Sunrise" which seems to synchronous with Google directly ignoring the IOS calendar!

Does any body knwo whether apple accepts this problem as an IOS 8 bug????

The whole thing is extremely frustration and I'm puzzling whether I should throw away my iPhone 5 and buy a cheap Android instead to have a device I could work with....

also throwing my hat in: i have spent hours and hours and hours going through and trying everything suggested here.

this on top of recent major problems with yosemite on my macbook air (that caused me to lose two days troubleshooting and a week of work) has me really thinking apple is done for. this is totally unacceptable & insanely irresponsible to completely screw up the basic things people have come to depend on.

OK off phone now. pretty much same story. They = APPLE for sure knows this a problem...and are working on it. I update the TIER 2 Person with the View count of this thread. I got my case number just fine. And first name of the Wednesday person. So left her a lengthy vmail.. The direct number seems to be 877-203-0418...then you add an extension for your person. Good Luck. I was told we / I would get a heads up notice when they get a fix.

Not sure what to say about the poster above who says they fixed it with a full restart ( simple fix did it for me, poster.)= lmilne? wonder how long it lasted??

So how long has your fix worked? I think several others have tried the full restart. I will have to check just how complicated that is,.. as in how much of a task to reload your apps and data and such. I know there are several levels of "re-" choices, restart, restore..? Thanks, Brogan

LOL Nobody posts back to inform us that the "fix that worked for them" actually didn't work after all 😉 People are very fast to show up here, not read anything, claim they have a miracle fix for this that is really easy....and that somehow none of us who have been working on this issue for months have identified, but then they are a lot slower to come back and say "oh yeah, I noticed five minutes later that all the GMT tags showed up again." It's like that guy you know that always tells you when he makes money on a stock....but somehow never tells you when he loses money.....

Or they will claim that they found a "fix" and that all that you need to do is go back and edit every single appointment in your calendar manually.....eight steps at a time. That's what Android users would consider a "fix." That's not a fix any more than repainting your house is a "fix" for defective paint that you used the first time.

There is no fix folks. That's the sad truth. The "fix" is going to come from Apple, when they fix their buggy code. And based on recent updates from couple of guys on here who have been working this hard through Apple upper level tech support, I am optimistic the real fix will be here in a few weeks.

Like I said... so far the appointments I have done this to have not changed back. That does not mean it will stay but so far things are correct. I did this with a dozen appointments that were "GMT" infected yesterday and it has been 24 hours, plenty of time to have everything sync with google multiple times, and they are still correct.

That's a great, as usual, reply note. I have only been here a few days and I tend to concur with you JG. That is certainly what I tell the Apple Care people when they start in suggesting a workaround fix....I say No NO thanks, I will wait for the really update with out this bug...

I may look at bdomer above, ........

I am not claiming a fix... I emphasize the "WORK AROUND" part of my post. I can't function daily without a proper calendar to keep me on schedule and really don't want to go back to paper pencil. I am just doing this so that it works correctly until they fix it. If I did not have such a "fluid" schedule from day to day where my appointments change sometimes by the hour I would not mess with any work around. But when I enter an appointment then two hours later have to change it and can't remember the right time because my phone has decided to adjust the time by five hours then my whole day is screwed up on the calendar. So this is just a way to survive until Apple does their thing. I will be on the phone with them pretty regularly until something happens. when you create a product that can do all the things these phones can do I agree that the simple function of maintaining an accurate calendar could be expected. Imagine what it would have been like if the first calculators always said 2+2=5... every time people added 2+2 they would need to then subtract 1 before going on... this is pretty much the same kind of thing... I think...

"Imagine what it would have been like if the first calculators always said 2+2=5... every time people added 2+2 they would need to then subtract 1 before going on... this is pretty much the same kind of thing... I think.."

^^ This is why I dumped the Android platform a few years back. Android is literally INFESTED with bugs. There is no one to call to report a bug and get any feedback on a solution, and everyone simply blames everyone else rather than acknowledging this might be a bug either in Android, or the 3rd party developer's app. Even apps from major companies like Ebay have obvious bugs on Android and nobody gives a crap about fixing any of them because Android users are totally OK just living with bugs. I think that if Android users were to ever acknowledge a bug they would have a harder time showing up with their snarky comments every time Apple comes out with a new product so that we all know how superior Android is 🙂

And the funniest part of all, most other "helpful" Android user's would say....in response to your example above: "Oh the solution is really easy, just remember that you always need to subtract 1. Problem solved!!" When I told my Android user brother in law about this GMT bug over Thanksgiving, he literally said "Why don't you just remember to subtract 8 hours from your appointment times?" I am not making this up.

Apple has, in the past, been different and far superior. They maintain a locked-down ecosystem in which....at least before recent events...the OS and 3rd party apps were thoroughly tested before being released to their users. This current situation is alarming because of what it demonstrates about Apple's "new" approach to quality control (i.e. they apparently don't do it anymore).

On the other hand, I was explaining this to my girlfriend the other night and caught myself pointing out that at least, with iOS I am only dealing with this one bug, and that a solution is in the works, rather than dealing with multiple bugs and no response or solutions.

My point: this s^cks....but it still s^cks less than the alternatives.

The answer from your brother-in-law just makes me burst out in laughter. I just imagined telling my boss "yes, I can do the meeting at 9:00... I'll put 2:00 on my calendar and share the appointment with the rest of the team and remind them to subtract five hours from the time scheduled... oh wait.. I am sorry the phone will automatically make the five hour change for me so I don't have to adjust anything... so I will see you at 2:00..."

Yeah same story here....thanks for the beating over the head with this...gad not even sure want quick quote I am looking to attempt. Prob sort of brain dead..HEY yeah that's it " beating a dead horse?" ? Many times I hit a glitch ..do a little trouble shooting heck it is only 10:30 pm plenty of time for sleep soon..sure I can do just this one more little step , one last try..tap tap... Heck gotta be close..whoops..

and of course suddenly I look at clock and its past 1am...so it goes.

My mom ..i keep telling her how great iPhone .. siri ...gad now what to I tell her?? Luckily she keeps a paper hospital calendar......

Is this only happening on Google Calendar? I have not experienced this issue with my exchange calendar that I use for some of my work appointments. Of course if you use iCloud calendar (who does that???) it is not an issue either.

Angelitos- This actually does work although you do have to add another two steps. Even so, it's not too much trouble for now and worth it in order to not have to deal with seeing all the GMT times and the time changes that come along with it. The best and easiest temporary fix posted yet. Thanks.

The temporary solution using the on off all day switch is actually not that complicated once you get used to it. It is not perfect nor what we would like, but it is better than anything that's been suggested so far.