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

that's what i realized too.

are folks also experiencing 'freezing' when you are editing an event and want to hit "done"? this happens 2-3 times a day and i have to reboot phone. only the calendar freezes, i can still access email, FB, etc.

You got it.

Yes, one of the other symptoms of the GMT bug is that iOS calendar events that span across the 12am (local time) time slot --- say an event that starts at 7am GMT, but starts at 10pm PST (local time for me) .. when EDITING that event in the calendar -- causes the event to "jump down" to the bottom of the screen and locks up the screen (almost like it is "off the screen"). I have to touch another time block on my calendar to "cancel the EDIT".

I have seen this behavior on my iPad Air2 -- and I think my iPhone 6. This behavior NEVER happen with iOS 7.x versions and definitely has something to do with the event being in GMT on my device and crossing the 12am threshold.

Apple's QA/test processes should have caught this... along with the original GMT Bug --- but apparently they seem to feel this is acceptable (for now ).

We all love our Apple products and we all love using other company's services with our Apple products also. Using other conpany's services with our Apple products does not make Apple responsible or in control of the other company. If it is possible to add a Event to a calendar on one company's calendar and it shows correctly on my iPhone but I add a Event to a different company's calendar and it does not show correctly, is it logical to pinpoint Apple? Further below is a link to google's statement on GMT.

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

I Just want to encourage everyone who is annoyed by this bug to contact Apple support directly via chat or call. It really only takes a few minutes. I've been told they are working on a fix... I know I'll keeping bugging them until they do! Goggle calendar worked seemlessly with my iPad and phone until the iOS 8 update. Since then I've swited to iCloud to avoid the bug. An annoying work around.

OK so BUG or NOT. Maybe I can help at least a few people solve their issue. I've been dealing with this problem for many weeks, and going back and forth with our IT dept. As of right now, I feel really stupid. I was having the exact problem which is described all through this thread, right from the start. I'd tried everything suggested to get it sorted out but to no avail.

In DEC I upgraded from iphone 4S running latest operating system to iPhone 6+. The calendar always synced right up just fine with the correct time zone on the iPHone 4S. I never had the calendar in question (my work calendar) on my ipad Air, but decided to get the work calendar going on both the iphone 6+ and the iPad Air. I followed all instructions to a T (or so I thought).

So here was my brain dead mistake. Numerous times I logged into Google Calendar

https://www.google.com/calendar

Each time I selected the settings wheel upper right page under the email address. Here I set the time zone, and then checked this again numerous times when I started having the GMT issue. So, in my mind, the time zone was set correctly in the Google Calendar web page. Everything was set correctly in my iPad, and Iphone 6+ settings. I found this thread and figured I had the same problem everyone else was having because it was identical to my issue.

So finally my IT guy, who has access to my calendar sends me a line by line instruction set, and tells me that my work calendar is set on GMT. How can this be? Again, I go into to Google Calendar from my desktop pc and check the setting - it's clearly set to Pacific Time. He says he's never heard of this Bug and others are not having any issues. So this time I go back and read his instructions again, and it says to go to the left side of the web page and work with the "MY Calendars" drop down menus there. Here, the calendar tagged with my name is set correctly to Pacific time, but the work calendar next one down on the list, is set to GMT.... I corrected this and now everything is as should be...

It isn't necessarily intuitive to open the Google Calendar web page, find the setting which allows you to make a time zone adjustment, then make this adjustment, and not be "done" with the time zone setting for the Google Calendar web page. I'm sure many of you are thinking well that's really stupid but at some level of user ability, this is exactly what happens, and it happened to me....

When I watched the utube video in this thread, I tried it with the same result. Now it's clear that the reason that it worked fine - creating a test event on the Google Calendar web page which synced correctly to all devices - didn't generate an incorrect GMT time because that test event creation was done on a calendar which was set correctly to Pacific time. It was my separate work calendar that had never been set correctly and was still set on the default GMT....

I hope I'm the only one on this thread who was too lame to follow instructions, and talked myself into the fact that I was sure I had some bug problem....

Hope Apple and everyone gets it worked out sooner or later..

Jack

Jack,

I made that video on YouTube. The demonstration is syncing through an MS Exchange server, not Google Calendar. None of your discussion is relevant to this bug as manifested through Exchange.

Apple has confirmed this is a BUG. I don't know why you, and others, keep insisting that "no this isn't really a bug at all" when even Apple confirms that it is a bug in iOS and that they are working on a fix for it.

If you have identified a workaround that works in your case that's great. Tell others so that they can use it if It works for them. But don't say effectively "gosh we have all just been missing an settings change here" because that's not the case. Several of us have spent hours with our IT staff working on this, and some of us ARE EMPLOYED as IT staff. There is no easy fix. The iOS code needs to be fixed.

This behavior never happened before iOS 8. It happens to users of multiple different synced services after iOS 8. The same services all still work fine on iOS 7. The common variable is iOS 8.

I sure hope Apple fixes this too, but so far, their attitude towards me and millions of other affected users is "thanks for being an Apple customer and giving us a bunch of your money.....go pound sand."

Restarting the phone didn't work, and it still happens after a restore using iCloud.

I started having this problem a couple days ago. When I create an event on my iPhone 5 in my gmail calendar with the current iOS in my time zone (EST) the event gets changed to GMT. I have to go in and edit each entry to get it back to EST. My iCloud time zone is and always was set in EST. Thanks for working on this. I hope a solution will be posted soon. I just updated iOS today, but the problem persists. I see other discussion forums on this topic suggest that the problem is not widespread and/or the result of some settings being off. But the the problem is much bigger.

JG I was just trying to reach others who might be in the same boat I was in, which was thinking that we were affected by the GMT bug, when in fact we were not. I'm not disputing whether or not there is a bug - clearly there is - it's just that if I was able to talk my way into it, then perhaps others have as well...

Good luck with it

Jack

I've been watching this thread for some time now and have read all replies as they come in. I am in NO way technically savvy but out of sheer boredom and irritation to this GMT issue, I decided to play. I went to Google Calendars and looked into my settings... all calendars are individually set to Central Time as they should be but under that is a check box to "show all time zones". I unchecked this box, went in to my iPhone (5S), created a new event and voila no GMT. Created another event with alerts and again, no GMT.

I am skeptical whether it will remain like this but right now.... I like it, GMT is gone.

MIght be be something to try.

@SassiRae, Thanks for the tip but I followed those steps and still getting the GMT. Glad it's working for you though 🙂

Bummer, sorry to hear. Although again, we'll see how long this lasts. 😕

This is not going to fix it... eventually the issue will return. This GMT happened a year ago to me and I went through all the Google calendar settings changes and resubmitted calendars etc. and fixed the issues... then viola... IOS8 happens and I have GMT again. ALL of my Google settings never changed. All appropriate boxes were checked or unchecked. There is NOTHING left to fix on Google calendar or exchange calendar settings. IOS 8 is the issue.

I vow that everyone who comments on this thread to post their iOS version before saying "hey give this a try". Otherwise just keep submitting your feedback to Apple: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

@SassiRae

What of iOS version are you running on your iPhone 5S??? I trust that you know how to find that out.

I'm running iOS 8.1.3 and some of us here are running iOS 8.1.x. So, your response of "MIght be be something to try." doesn't work for iOS 8.x.x!!!

I have tried this option as you see below and that doesn't change the fact of GMT being gone for iOS 8.x.x:

Thank you for your thoughts.

here is the configuration I am using: iphone 6 plus, iOS 8.1.3, I am connected to two calendars 1. Google Calendar, and 2. Outlook 365 for my work calendar. My default calendar is Google. For testing I have also connected to the iCloud calendar which came natively with my iPhone.

Since the upgrade to iOS 8 I have encountered the GMT issue when entering new events to the Google calendar. I do not experience any issue when entering new events to my Exchange calendar.

As annoying as it is that the display of the event is switched to GMT from EST (is my case) I do not think it is a bug, it is annoying and inconsistent with the Outlook and iCloud calendars but it maintains the time of the event correctly and only requires some caution when editing the meeting, as long as I am willing to edit the event time in GMT all works well.

Having said all of the above I also believe that Apple should be consistent and manipulate the event in local time by default and never expose the GMT conversion.

There is a very specific scenario in which the system has a definite bug as follows:

1. I created a new event in Google Calendar. The event shows correctly on both my iPhone and Google Calendar on my desktop

2. Edit the event. The time of the event shows in GMT.

3. Switch the event to an All-Day event.

4. Switch the event back to None-All-Day. The GMT has disappeared from the time, and it has been converted to local time, in my case EST. The event has shifted by 5 hours forward.