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

When you deleted your Gmail account entirely from the phone you obviously lost all of your Google calander events as well. When you put your Gmail back on the phone again, we're all of your events back on your calander?

Let me correct that ... they were still in "google". When I deleted gmail from my iPhone I could still see the events in my Mac (and my PC) when I was in Gmail. So they weren't actually on the MAC .. I could just see them there when I went to my Gmail calendar. When I reloaded Gmail to my iPhone all events reappeared.

Hey all,

I've been following every single reply on this post for the last 4 weeks since I encountered this problem and I can attest that I have tried every single work around that has been mentioned here, and nothing works. Resetting the network settings, restoring the device, deleting my gmail account and adding it again, heck I even went to the genius bar in my city and they gave me a brand new iPad out of the box... and still nothing but this GMT bug. And while I appreciate that some things are working for some of us, like the toggle for timezone override etc, it sure ain't working for me. And using a third party app to view my calendar is not on. I don't think it's acceptable that we should have to find ways to avoid this bug because it shouldn't be happening in the first place. Apple has really screwed up, and I am almost considering getting rid of my iPad altogether in favor of a PC laptop just so that I can run my business calendar the way it has always worked prior to this update. Anyway, enough of my rant. I'm not looking to poke holes in anyone's theories or start any arguments. I use my calndar to run my entire business and the last 4 weeks have been utter agony for me SO after speaking with a client today who runs in PR circles, I have emailed a letter to a very well known IT journo in Australia in the hopes that this gets some attention and pushes Apple towards a quicker fix. It may not achieve anything but heck I thought I'd give it a go. @JB I have linked this discussion, your youtube video and the appriver article. Here is hoping this gets resolved ASAP. Peace to all

I'm having this same issue on iPhone 5s and iPad, but not on my Mac. None of the suggested solutions work for me. I've read through most of this thread... thanks to everyone who has put in such hard work on documenting this bug!

I am *not* being sarcastic. I received a call from Apple tech support this evening and they told me this was by design. I politely disagreed and asked for them to (again) see the discussion group.

I agree this is a bug.

After hours of trying to fix the GMT Time Zone Problem I contacted Apple. They gave me this easy fix since they are unable to fix IOS 8 to correct the time zone problem.

1. Get your passport updated

2. Move to one of the following countries below that uses GMT Time Zone. The Apple Rep did mention that the African Countries are the easiest to get a working visa for. Until Apple gets their finger's out of their *** and fix the major f*$# up, this is your best option on getting your calendar to work.

• Ireland
• Isle of Man
• Greenland
• Iceland
• United Kingdom - main islands
• Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Saint Helena
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

All this is even stranger when you make some adjustments....checkout this img. I set the time range from Start: 9:00pm End: 9:45pm....45mins in total.

The GMT time shows from 10:00am to 11:15pm GMT....1 hour and 15 mins!!!

This will be something to do with Daylight saving between timezones.

I read on a google page that the whole issue with timezones is very complicated....clearly, without Steve Jobs at the wheel, it's all too complicated for the laid back and careless workers that seem to be getting away with providing a substandard product and still enjoying a full pay check! SJ would have fired them by now, probably by text, just for fun!....I digress!

jcpowers72 wrote:

After hours of trying to fix the GMT Time Zone Problem I contacted Apple. They gave me this easy fix since they are unable to fix IOS 8 to correct the time zone problem.

1. Get your passport updated

2. Move to one of the following countries below that uses GMT Time Zone. The Apple Rep did mention that the African Countries are the easiest to get a working visa for. Until Apple gets their finger's out of their *** and fix the major f*$# up, this is your best option on getting your calendar to work.

• Ireland
• Isle of Man
• Greenland
• Iceland
• United Kingdom - main islands
• Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Saint Helena
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

I really wish I could like this more.....where's the multi-like button gone FFS!!!!!

Hi zak456,

So what you're saying is that you use the sunrise calendar for making appointments, and then that sends the info to your Google calendar, which then forwards that info the standard calendar and doesn't show the GMT bug? And so you don't use iOS calendar at all anymore?

I have been doing the 8-step editing every single appointment every time I do it, and I'm slowly going mad, but it's the only I've been able to guarantee that the appointments actually stay where they are meant to. I use my calendar for my entire business and this has been a very annoying issue for me.

I might give this sunrise calendar a shot. Thanks!

I can't comment on how this interacts with Outlook, but using the flow I described (via Sunrise and google calendar) the bug definitely does not re-appear (on any of my iOS devices) when subsequently editing appointments in the native iOS calendar app. I just verified it again.

I'd love others to reproduce what I see, to make sure it's not just me.

Richard

I received a second call today from Apple telling me the GMT functionality is by design. I sent another screenshot and (again) asked tech support to pass this discussion link to the engineers. I'm losing confidence.

"Maybr if everyone downloads one of these 3rd party calendar apps Apple will wonder why they've gotten to the top of App Store downloads and do something about solving the cause."

If Apple sees everyone start doing that they will say "Problem SOLVED!! Our customers are perfectly happy to just use a jury rigged chewing gum workaround instead of expecting us to fix our buggy software and/or maintain any quality control!!!! Awesome, we still have their money and they don't care if we ever fix this. Whoopie!!!"

It makes me nervous that so many recent participants in this thread are totally OK living with this indefinitely if they can duct-tape fix it with some 3rd party app. If you want this fixed.....and the next bug fixed....the solution is to put pressure on Apple to do their job and FIX it. Not say "I can get by indefinitely by using some 3rd party app that I would never have chosen to use if Apple's software worked correctly."

Putting a bucket under your leaky roof is not a solution to the leaky roof problem.......the guy that put the roof on needs to fix the f*****g leak.

otterit is correct that we need to take an active role to make sure Apple knows this is a major issue that needs to be addressed. In the meantime, here's an interesting article that popped up when I went over to Huffington Post to submit a story tip about this particular bug:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/05/marco-arment_n_6416540.html?fb_action_i ds=10205805732571998&fb_action_types=og.comments

From the above article: "Arment had no specific complaints about iOS, but called it 'riddled with embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions.'"

Ya think?

Zak456, I understand the All Day toggle work around is not perfect and that you have to be careful about the day and time when you reset it. but I found it the easiest of the work arounds not including using a 3rd party app/calendar like you mentioned.

I do have a question about the Sunshine Calendar app. Do you know if after you install Sunshine and it syncs up with all your calendars (iOS, Google, Outlook), if you delete the app, will it remove all calendar entries from the other calendars ((iOS, Google, Outlook)? I had tried a third party calendar years ago - not Sunshine - and when I deleted it from my device, it removed all the calendar entries as I guess the main iOS calendar thought I was removing those entries from my calendar. That would be my only concern about a third party calendar app.

Thanks for any info if you have any on this issue.

FYI, there's Google Groups post on this as well.

Google Groups Gmail Help: https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topicsearchin/calendar/clock$20in %7Csort:relevance/calendar/CaPn0hLOU0c

Another option that didn't work.

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services (scroll all the way to bottom) > Setting Time Zone (off/on)

I toggled this option and still the issue persist.