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

Interesting. Thanks for the update. I upgraded both my iPhone and my iPad but only had a problem with my iPhone. Apple have been trying to blame Google but it clearly is a problem with the latest software upgrade from Apple. I am not impressed.

Apple Support was useless for me as well. I went to my local Apple store yesterday and they had simply never heard of the problem. I told them it was on several blogs (this was moments before it hit the main news sites) but they told me to ignore all that "chatter" and (sadly) convinced me to wipe my iPhone telling me it was a Google problem. All my notes then came back to me as emails which I promptly deleted. They are now all gone forever.

The first big problem here is the "it just works" marketing from Apple. I had believed that but now know that they don't test their software before release. It is shocking to me that such a major bug can slip through. Secondly, there seems no communication between Apple support groups. My Apple shop should have been all over this assuring me that a fix was on the way but they were clueless. "If in doubt - wipe it". seems the mantra.

I am so angry. My faith in Apple has been shattered.

Well -- I see the Apple Community forum "police" were very busy last night --- removing / deleting all posts that mention the "p-word" -- citing a forum policy violation.

It is interesting that Apple has the time, energy and resources to step into this forum thread and delete all posts that even refer to the "p-word" -- by my count, at least 7 posts related to the "p-word" topic have been deleted and disappeared overnight. Talk about squashing a dialogue/debate.... about how to get an "bug" fixed!

While I am supportive of Apple Community forum policy/rules --- I think this recent enforcement of forum policies goes beyond the spirit of the forum.

Very sad and very disappointing. If Apple was doing it's job LISTENING to it's customers and COMMUNICATING to the Community and taking ACTION to resolve this "bug" --- we wouldn't even have to get to the discussion of needing a "p-word" created/signed...

Thanks JG - I am on it.

Machine or Human.... it doesn't much matter. The result is the same; people are unable to see the discussion/dialogue unfolding and make an informed decision on whether to participate in "that thing".

I would advise anyone who is interested in this thread to follow it by clicking the link at the top of this page and entering your email address. Posts that do not contain references to "that thing" have also been removed. That would seem to indicate human intervention.

This is a problem that I have seen ever since moving to iOS8. I had asked the same thing to Microsoft support forum (I am using Office 365), but they said this is an Apple's problem, as there is no setting on Exchange server side to change.

I think you may be wrong that this is not a bug. When someone is in their home time zone and sets an appointment for 2:00 CST and the appointment shows up on your calendar 8 hours later which in many cases could be the next day and you miss your appointment that is a bug. Prior to the 8.0 release when you set an appointment for a specific time the appointment came up at that time that is how it use to work and that is what this group wants. Not being able to set an appointment for a specific time on your calendar and expecting it to come up at that time can not be the way this was designed that makes no sense.

But isn't it odd that this only affects Apple products? Why am I not seeing the same behaviour/problem when I use Google calendar for syncing my Asus NPFI or Nokia Lumia 1020? And why this only started around the time iOS 8 was launched?

I still see this as a bug. The behaviour of ignoring the time zone I select and putting all new entries in GMT is not correct behaviour. And it was working fine before.

What I'm trying to get across is that if you go to apple and tell them that their product has a bug, they will inspect the code and tell you that the behavior is exactly as written. If you buy a BMW that is red, but you would prefer a blue car, the car is not broken it just doesn't meet your requirements. Complain all you want and BMW will tell you the car is the color it is supposed to be. However, tell them in the future you would like to see a car available in blue and they will determine if it is possible and all other factors considered make it happen.

To re-iterate: just because you don't like HOW it works doesn't mean it DOESN'T work.

Your analogy misses the point entirely and proves that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Your answer that if they check the code, and determine "that's how we wrote the code so everything is fine" means everything is actually fine is a total fallacy of logic. If they wrote buggy code, that causes unintended behavior, that's a BUG. Simply looking at the buggy code and saying "well that's how we wrote it" doesn't make it "normal behavior."

And for a THIRD time....APPLE ENGINEERS have confirmed this is a BUG. What part of that do you not understand?

Could you please provide a link to the Apple design document which describes the behavior as per your theory. If indeed this is the "desired" functionality as per your claim then please explain why was the behavior different prior to iOS 8. Could you please provide a link to release notes which indicate a change in behavior as of iOS 8?

Thanks!

abubasim66,

That is exactly what I did. Are you telling me that on your iOS calendar, after switching back to non-repeating, that you do have the correct 'Time' showing under the event 'Title'? I do not have any time displayed.

I am doing all the event 'creating' and 'changing' on my Macbook Air which uses Google Calendar for syncing. iOS device is an iPad Air.

abubasim66,

Ok ... I can't say for sure but I sure thought that on pre-iOS 8.1.x that events showed the time too.

Events on my Macbook Air OS X Yosemite all show the correct local event time along with the title of the event. Since Yosemite and iOS 8.1.x have a similar look and feel, I have a feeling the intent of the iOS calendar is to show the time as it does in OS X. Problem as we are all experiencing is that it shows GMT instead of local.

Macbook Air screenshot - Here

I powered on my old iPod Touch (4th gen with iOS 6.1.6) to view the calendar and this is how it's shown there. As you can see, the entries do not display the start time. Also note how the first entry is shown here. It's shown correctly with the local time zone - not GMT.

Okay so 8.1.3 does not fix ....

Only reasonable explanation .... they are saving the fix for the next iOS version that Tim Cook will announce at WWDC in June. Hey they have to have something for the crowd to 'cheer' about. They'll market it as a feature to make iOS more closely align with Yosemite. ha! 😉

Example of Yosemite vs. iOS 8.1.2 (iPad) HERE