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

My apologies I do not use Gmail for my calendar I use Outlook and iCloud for my calendars with a Windows 8.1 PC and an iPhone 6 running 8.1.2 and have been unable to reproduce this issue. I am not sure if I am missing something or if this is a delayed thing. I created an event on my Phone using the Calendar app and waited for it to sync with my PC then I created an event on my PC and waited for it sync. Neither event jumped to GMT so I may be missing something.

I have a friend who had this issue with his Google calendar and that was the article that I found while trying to help him because I thought i may have been pulling the time zone from his account not his phone. After comparing his device to my own and then finding the article I thought I was only occuring with Gmail.

I did not have a chance to read the whole thread I merely posted what I did because I thought it would help.

Some have the opinion that Apple is ignoring iPhone users who have <6 and 6+. I'm a fan of Apple. All of my devices are Apple, but I'm beginning to wonder if there isn't some truth in such an opinion. I paid full price for my iPhone 5S, and it wasn't cheap - over US$800 direct to Apple. I believe the issues with <6 deserve to be addressed in a timely manner. These four month old calendar issues are frustrating. I travel - a lot - and the steps I have to take to keep my calendar straight are ridiculous for any device, let alone an Apple device. Apple, take care of your customers and service ALL issues.

Hi, kmlv

I'm curious to know what you mean by "steps I have to take to keep my calendar straight".. The GMT bug is clearly there and Apple's response has been AWFUL, but I think your problem may be different and resolved without waiting for this apple fix..

You may be able to help me with my question:

What are the productivity hits for users because of this bug? Aside from the fact that iOS calendar shows the GMT time between parenthesis? I mean, while that GMT time being shown is an annoyance, I always have the events in the right spot in the calendar.. even when moving across timezones..

PS. This bug happens with all iPhone's including 6 and 6+

You need to be a registered iOS developer to get access to the beta. Google "iOS Dev Center" for details how to become a developer for a membership fee of circa $100.00 a year. My reading of the line you quote from the release notes published on the bgr.com site is that the issue was not fixed, it says "....sync does not work in this beta"

The release notes for Beta 4 said:

"3rd party calendar sync does not work in this beta"

The release notes for Beta 5 say:

"Fixed in beta 5 3rd party calendar sync does not work in this beta"

The substantive new text being "Fixed in Beta 5" which appears to suggest this is perhaps "Fixed in beta 5." Why add text that specifically says "Fixed in Beta 5" to the Beta 5 release notes if they didn't "fix" anything?

Dude I will gladly pay $100 to become a "developer" and get rid of this a few months in advance 😉 If it means I can directly report other bugs to Apple that would be an added bonus, although I am not experiencing any other major ones at this point.

I do not recall the Terms and Conditions binding a developer and if you are allowed to disseminate what you learned from a beta. I would suggest you read the T&C if you decide to proceed with becoming a "developer". Also, be mindful that it is a beta and you expose your iPhone to a certain extent by using a beta release.

All excellent points. If I do it it would be for my own advanced use of the beta version. I read the agreement earlier and they are specific about what you can and can't discuss. In the meantime there are a bunch of people busy discussing the beta over at MacRumors. I think if you follow their thread you will eventually get cinformation about this bug being fixed or not. I have inquired with some other sources as well 🙂 I think we'll know soon enough whether this is fixed in 8.2 or not.

FWIW: I am usually reluctant to install any "beta version" of anything because I am highly concerned about bugs etc. In this case Apple's public release is so buggy that I don't consider that a risk!!!

I don't want to jinx myself but all of a sudden I am not getting the GMT error when adding an appointment on my iPhone. It's syncing fine with Google calendar. I've changed nothing recently. I will test a few more times to see if its an anomaly, but so far so good. Maybe someone fixed something. Could someone else confirm this?

Nothing happened that I know of (of course I don't really understand all this user account stuff). All I know is that my email and calendar accounts are part of an Outlook PST file stored on my computer). That is why I use the Google calendar to sync my appointments to my Apple devices. I'm not disagreeing that something changed, I just don't know what would have changed (nothing on my end). I was thinking that maybe Apple and Google got together and worked this out somehow, but then again maybe not......

Same is true here. Events are handled correctly, no more GMT anywhere. My iPhone syncs correctly with Google Calendar. I made no change whatsoever in the settings on my iPhone or in Google in recent days.

Magic!!! Voila.

Still doing it here. But I am on Exchange, not Google. Would be really helpful if people, when they state this is fixed, could indicate what Calendar service they are using to sync.

If this is 100% working on Google now, my guess is that Google changed something on their end, not that Apple has fixed anything. And I would speculate further is that what Google did, is to block the server's time clock setting from being shared to any clients. So iOS is still trying to pick it up, but there's no data so it can't complete screwing up you appointments.

Sorry if I wasn't clear about being on Outlook using Google Calendar syncing.You are correct, anyone who has the GMT issue resolved should state what there basic set up is. I have Outlook syncing with Google Calendar and iOS 8.1.3.

Again please tell us what your setup is when you report that "it is working." Without that info, we have no idea what is working. In this case I am going to speculate jeremynichols is using Google Calendar to sync. Am I correct?

This is definitely a fix by Google. I have another calendar URL that I've subscribed to/added in GCal. Iphone is still showing that one as GMT. I tried removing it completely from iCal and GCal, then readding it, and it's the same.