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

nayo2002 wrote:

i found a way to fix it. Go to google calendar on Safari. It will ask you to upgrade to the latest version and set your time zone on the top of the web page. After you do both, the problem will go away. It seems like it's a Google Calendar update that cleared out your default time zone so it's showing GMT time on devices.

As a clarification. You need to go to the non-mobile version of Google calendar via iPad or a computer. This worked on all my devices. Can someone else check?

joegrant,

Ha! .... Your fix at least would provide consistent results for everyone!

The issue is with Google Calendar & while I have no idea how to solve it, it is at least explained by Google Calendar here, as to why they use GMT always...

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/2367918?hl=en

I also followed the strategy of logging in to iCloud and changing the timezone setting. It seems to have worked on an iPhone 5c, iOS8

FYI .... IMHO... per other posts over the past 90 days --- the root case issue is with iOS entries created using the Calendar App. This app has a BUG and Apple is well aware of the problem... and they will hopefully address it with the next iOS 8.x release (crossing my fingers).

INTERIM SOLUTION -- until Apple fixes this horrible BUG -- Just DITCH the iOS 8.x Calendar app... and move to another iOS calendar app

Three calendars that seem to be working fine (tested on my 4 accounts -- 3 Office365 and 1 MS Exchange) are:

+ Calendars 5 (Readdle)

+ Calendar+ (Readdle)

+ Acompli

While not ideal -- these apps "do the job" and are a good bridge solution until Apple addresses the GMT Bug from ****.

Sunrise Calendar works well too.

I believe in order for an app to bypass the problem, it must interface directly with -- that is, explicitly log into -- your calendar service (Google, Exchange etc.). An app like Fantastical (a great app in its own right) won't solve the problem since it's the same iOS calendar on the back end.

I switched to an iPhone 6 from a 4s last week. I'm having the same issue as everyone else here. I've read through this and many other posts trying multiple things to fix the problem. The only thing that "works" are some of the workarounds listed here. Nothing really fixes the problem, and the workarounds are complete hassles for someone booking lots of appointments. I use the calendar for a busy work schedule and have too many appointments to go through and fix all of them individually. So far, I'm really disappointed in Apple and the new iPhone. There seem to be a lot of bugs.

Also, for the record, I have an iPad that I haven't updated the software on that doesn't show the GMT issue, and neither did my old iPhone 4s. However, if I create an appointment on my iPad it will show on my iPhone 6 with the GMT issue. Now I'm afraid to update the software on my iPad.

nayo2002 wrote:

nayo2002 wrote:

i found a way to fix it. Go to google calendar on Safari. It will ask you to upgrade to the latest version and set your time zone on the top of the web page. After you do both, the problem will go away. It seems like it's a Google Calendar update that cleared out your default time zone so it's showing GMT time on devices.

As a clarification. You need to go to the non-mobile version of Google calendar via iPad or a computer. This worked on all my devices. Can someone else check?

Has anyone tried this? It works on all new calendar entries. Existing entries will still show GMT

Events created inside the Exchange or Google Calendar itself seem not to have the issue that creating them on an Apple device generates. So, because your suggestion is to add the event using calendar.google.com, it works as you say. However, it's not always practical to create the event on Safari. I still need the fix.

Same problem on all our iOS devices. This is strictly an iOS 8 error. We've ruled all else out.

Not due to Time Zone changes or "Time Zone Override"; none of the proposed fixes here work.

We're in the Pacific/"Cupertino" time zone. All Calendar events we create on our iPhones, iPads and computers (using iCal) show up correctly in our time zone on our computers (both in iCal and in Google Calendar on the web).

But events that use Google calendar accounts show up incorrectly on all of our iOS 8 devices: they switch to the GMT time zone. In some Calendar views, both time zones appear. This never happened before iOS 8 (or perhaps 8.1), and nothing else has changed.

NOTE:

1) We never leave the Pacific/"Cupertino" time zone, and have never set our time zones differently.

2) We've never used Time Zone Override.

3) When we create an event (whether using iCal or the iOS Calendar), our correct time zone is the only one displayed. But it switches to GMT in Calendar after the event is created.

4) Those same events still display correctly on iCal and in Google Calendar online. It's strictly an iOS 8 glitch.

5) We've tried every fix people have suggested here, including correcting an event's time zone, resetting iCloud, iOS and Google Calendar time zones, reinstalling, whispering sweet nothings into Siri's ear... nothing works.

This glitch renders the Calendar fairly useless. Needs a fix from Apple.

ETA: Yes, we've sent Apple Feedback on this. Everyone should:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

nayo2002

nayo2002 wrote:

i found a way to fix it. Go to google calendar on Safari. It will ask you to upgrade to the latest version and set your time zone on the top of the web page. After you do both, the problem will go away. It seems like it's a Google Calendar update that cleared out your default time zone so it's showing GMT time on devices.

As a clarification. You need to go to the non-mobile version of Google calendar via iPad or a computer. This worked on all my devices. Can someone else check?

Sadly, this didn't work for us.

This does not work.

I spent about an hour last night chatting with Apple support. They blame it on the fact that Google uses GMT, which if you follow the link a few posts up you will see a solid explanation of why they do. In fact, I was directed to the same link by Apple. Apple said it's because they use "a more sophisticated way of showing the time" in the calendar now (cough, cough...trying to cover up their mistake), so that's why devices using iOS 8 are experiencing the problem. Um, news flash: it's not more sophisticated if it doesn't work. It worked fine before and nothing with Google has changed. It's an Apple problem, and after working my way up to a supervisor last night I was told their engineers are working on a solution, but don't have a time frame for a fix. So, for now I'm trying Sunrise. So far so good.

TheIssa wrote:

I spent about an hour last night chatting with Apple support. They blame it on the fact that Google uses GMT, which if you follow the link a few posts up you will see a solid explanation of why they do. In fact, I was directed to the same link by Apple. Apple said it's because they use "a more sophisticated way of showing the time" in the calendar now (cough, cough...trying to cover up their mistake), so that's why devices using iOS 8 are experiencing the problem. Um, news flash: it's not more sophisticated if it doesn't work. It worked fine before and nothing with Google has changed. It's an Apple problem, and after working my way up to a supervisor last night I was told their engineers are working on a solution, but don't have a time frame for a fix. So, for now I'm trying Sunrise. So far so good.

Well at least that's an answer: We're not really acknowledging it's our glitch but we're quietly working on it, and have no ETA for when we might have a fix.

Thanks for sharing, Thelssa.

So, for now I'm trying Sunrise. So far so good.

I, too, am using Sunrise as an alternative until the Apple fixes the GMT problem. It is mostly good, with a few cons. Since Sunrise is often mentioned here as either a stop-gap or a replacement, I wanted to add a few notes about it, even though this is an Apple forum.

PRO

Sunrise does not have the GMT issue. It enters events only in my local time-zone (I haven't traveled with it), and events are editable without switching time zones. That Sunrise's engineers have solved that proves it is Apple's problem and not Google's.

CON

• You cannot set or change a calendar's color. Sunrise randomly sets a color for each calendar, with no connection to the existing color you've set at the source, and it is not editable. In my case, Sunrise set my Home calendar to light blue, my Work calendar to blue, and the current day highlight is a shade of blue between those two. Not good. (Also, the colors set in the iPhone app do not match those set in the iPad add.)
• You cannot move an event from one parent calendar to another. That is, if you create an event in a Google calendar, you can only move it to another Google calendar, NOT to an Exchange or iCloud calendar.

For me, the native iOS Calendar still wins in most categories, although I am actually using both to keep myself covered and to test which I like better in the long run. That may ultimately depend on who updates their app first and best.