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

I guess that I am having the same problem as everyone here, or something slightly different? At first glance when I look at Calendar on my iPhone or iPad in "text" view (?), the times are all correct. If I click on any individual entry, I get the correct time AND another line with GMT. More of a nuisance than anything, some other folks here have flat out incorrect times and that would just make me nuts so I am feeling for those Community members. From what I have followed so far on this issue, there is no fix or workaround, not sure Apple has even admitted to an issue versus this being an "enhancement". I have been so focused on a completely different issue with iOS8 for close to two months (see "IOS 8 won't sync music with iTunes"), also with no resolution from Apple or the Community yet, but I just noticed this issue as well. So I thought I would chime in, introduce myself, let you all know that I am following this string now, and I am hoping to help and/or be helped. Thanks.

I Have a crude solution. Set your time zone under General manually to your local zone, not on auto. Then new appts appear without the GMT marker, when you travel though you have to manually change time zones.

Thanks Apple you are winning the race to bad buggy code against Google!

"I Have a crude solution. Set your time zone under General manually to your local zone, not on auto" Thanks for posting this. Hopefully this works for some people. Unfortunately it does not work in my case. Tried it and new appointments created on iDevices end up with the GMT thing on the other iDevice when synced over.

Also, I am now running 8.1.1 (pushed out this morning by Apple) and this apparently does not include a fix for this issue.

My Exchange host, AppRiver is working with Apple Enterprise tech support on this....but AppRiver reports Apple's responses have been very flakey and inconsistent. AppRiver is good about following up with Apple, and they send me status updates about progress every couple days. So far no solutions identified by Apple, and not even a solid commitment by Apple to fix the issue....although Apple "appears" to now acknowledge that this in fact an issue caused by Apple rather than blaming everyone else on Earth for it. I guess that's progress....

Martin,

I live in the Netherlands too and have the exact same problem with iOS 8.1 (and 8.1.1) and Google Apps calendars:

Weekview is useless, as times are shown on CET calendar with additional GMT time in the appointment. The additional GMT time is very confusing.

My timezone settings on iphone are cet to CET, location is Netherlands, I do not use timezone override in the calendar settings.

Google is set to CET.

My workstation is set to CET.

Items added trough iOS show calendar events in CET on iphone and google web interface. No problem here.

Items added in Google web interface show calendar events in CET on iphone and google web interface. No problem here.

Items added though thuinderbird/lightning (latest version) and android show show calendar events in GMT on iphone (in weekviewand CET on google web interface. These events have no calendar overrides in google web interface, and look identical to events added though google interface and iphone.

The bug seems to be on iOS... It worked in 7.x.

My Exchange host has been working on this with top-tier Engineering support at Apple for 2 weeks now. It appears that the particular tech he is working with agrees this is a bug in iOS 8.

Unfortunately, the techs aren't sharing information with each other. My Exchange host informed me that another one of his clients...working this identical bug through a separate support case was told the following by Apple:

"The customer is contacting us because both the local time, and either the time of the originator or the server

is showing in the Calendar app. This is expected behavior with iOS 8."The customer can submit feedback on this feature at http://www.apple.com/feedback."

The above confirms a few things:

1. The tech writing this response clearly does not understand the issue being reported

2. The tech expects the customer to believe that the time transposition to something OTHER than selected by a user is a "feature"

3. The tech has no interest in acknowledging the problem and/or doing anything to further iinvestigate or fix it

My suggestion: USE THAT FEEDBACK LINK and report this! The more people Apple hears from, the more likely they are to do anything about this. As of now, they have made it clear that they don't care.

Also, I have posted a video on YouTube demonstrating this bug, and confirming this is ONLY generated by iOS devices. If you want to check it out, here's the link: http://youtu.be/cgP1zyi_iV8

Finally, most tech websites have TIP links. Go to the tip links and REPORT THIS BUG and Apple's attitude toward fixing it. If even one site publishes a story about this you can bet Apple will finally address it.

And Apple, consider this: the way I originally found this discussion thread...and the way many others find it ... is by Google searching "iOS 8 Calendar bug GMT." As of right this second the thread has been viewed 18,498 times according to the stats at the top of this page. Think this is an isolated issue? This is affecting thousands of your loyal customers. We'd appreciate it if you would respond with something more encouraging than "Thanks for being an Apple customer, go pound sand."

i have exactly the same problem which your You Tube video described to perfection. As you recommend I wrote to Apple to report their IOS 8 bug. Now what? We're stuck until they acknowledge and correct the problem. Could take forever

I went to the Genius bar at my local apple store here in NJ. Two people said they have never heard of this and they do not think it is an IOS issue, HA! Don't they read these posts? My internal IT manager has contacted both Google (since we run off of Google Apps) and Apple and nothing. Amazing that a company like Apple with a current valuation of almost 700 Billion (and the worlds highest valued company) can't fix a tiny issue like this. Our company runs over 200 apple devices, both on iPads and Phones. This is very frustrating...

rwsales2 wrote:

Apple with a current valuation of almost 700 Billion

Unfortunately, that means they can afford to ignore us.

IMO, before mobile devices were big, Apple was always trying to be better. They wanted to win customers away from PC and wanted to show them that the experience could be much easier and more friendly. Now, they don't need to compete in the same way anymore. They don't have as much to prove. Every teen will buy the new iPhone just because it's the new iPhone. It seems as though Apple is getting lazy, spreading itself too thin across too many markets, has put image and marketing before reliability, and is no longer what it used to be to some of its loyal customers.

/rant (sorry, this is becoming a very frustrating and worrying issue when execs are now missing meetings)

Hi all. I am not sure if this will solve everyone's problem, but it did solve my issue. I am using Google Apps on my iOS device... and syncing all information from Google's cloud - mail, contacts, calendar, and reminders.

I backed up my data to iTunes. I deleted my Calendar account on my iPhone. I then re-set up my account from scratch, using Exchange vs. the Google setup. Note that some of you MAY need to get your Google Apps administrators involved. Here are the instructions...

Requirements and Backing Up Data

1. Perform a sync with iTunes to ensure that Contacts and Calendars from your iOS device are backed up to your computer. Learn more.
2. Check your Safari cookies settings to see if it is set to "From Visited" or "Always". If it's set to "Never", you're more likely to be prompted to solve a CAPTCHA.
3. For Google Apps users, your administrator needs to have Google Sync enabled before you can use Google Sync.
   Note: After you set up Google Sync, your administrator may also have additional device management capabilities (such as remote wipe or password requirements). Contact your administrator for more details.

Getting Started

1. On your device's home screen, open the Settings application.
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account.
4. Tap Exchange. iOS 4.0+ allows multiple Exchange accounts. However, if you're on a device that doesn't let you add a second account, you could also use IMAP to sync Gmail, CalDAV to sync Google Calendar, and CardDAV to sync contacts.
5. Enter your full Google Apps email address in the Email field and password in the Password field and tap Next.
6. In the Server field, enter m.google.com as your server address. Note: To access m.google.com, set the language toEnglish (US).
7. Leave the Domain field blank.
8. In the Username field, enter your full Google Apps email address.
9. Your password should already be in the Password field from step 5. If it's not, enter your Google Apps password in thePassword field. Tap Next.

Notes about passwords

Select the Google services you want to sync, such as Mail, Contacts, and Calendars and tap Save. To receive and respond to meeting requests on your device, you need to turn on both Mail and Calendar and New events in your Google Calendar settings. See below for more information.

Congrats! You've set up Google Sync!

Synchronization will begin automatically if you have Push enabled on your device. You can also open the Mail, Calendar, or Contacts app and wait a few seconds to start a sync. Note that if you've recently signed up for Google Apps for Work, Education, or Government, it can take a few hours (up to 24) before you're able to sync with your mobile device.

This method SOLVED my problem. After re-syncing all mail, contacts, calendar, and reminders, my calendar was NORMAL again (no more GMT stuff...) and the problem was completely solved. Let me know if this works for you... Happy Thanksgiving!

Verizon helped us solve this one - it is a setting on your Gmail that didn't show up on IPhone 5s even with new IOS 8 download, but now shows up on IPhone 6.You need to reset your default on your Gmail settings to your own time zone. It will not correct all of the old entries, but all new entries will be added without the GMT.

Sorry, no, that doesn't work for the rest of us. It just means you had an ADDITIONAL problem; you didn't have your time zone set right in Gmail.

If you look back at the thread, you'll see that that's not it.

This was actually what fixed it for me. Of course all my devices were set to automatic time zone, it showed up fine as Amsterdam. When I turned it off on my iPad Mini it switched to London, I changed it to Amsterdam and checked my calendar. Most of the calendar entries showed up correctly again (one remained off).

That may be helpful for some, but many business users are frequent travelers who need to have automatic time zone turned on when they move between different zones. Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, the above solution for Google related issues does not address the people who experience this problem and use a corporate exchange account.

I'm curious if some people are actually solving the calendar issue shown in the youtube video or if they're just resolving other settings they had misconfigured.

Hi all... Just wondering if anyone has tried the fix that worked for me - posted on 11/26? It definitely worked for me. No problems going from Outlook thru Google Sync, to Google Apps, to iOS devices or vice versa.

To verify the fix, I re-setup the account again using the Google option vs. Exchange in iOS. When I switch back and forth between these two calendars (Exchange setup vs. Google set up account) i can see the GMT issue on the Google-option calendar, but NOT on the Exchange setup calendar.

Anyone experiencing the same thing?

Dave, I would love to try your fix, but for some reason setting up a google calendar using the Exchange option on the iPhone and iPad isn't working for me.

I am able to delete my google calendar from the phone, and then follow your directions, setting it up anew as an exchange account. And, when I finish setting it up, the account verifies itself. (The little checkmarks momentarily appear, indicating that the password is correct, etc.)

Once I do that, if I go to Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendars, I see my gmail account listed in the list of accounts, and Mail, Calendars and Reminders are all selected. Mail days to sync is listed as 1 week. In advanced settings, "Use SSL" is selected. S/MIME is not.

So all seems to be in order. But when I go to Calendar, and select "Calendars" at the bottom of the page, the google calendar is not in the list. And, my calendar is not populating with events from the google calendar.

Any idea what my problem might be? I'm running IOS 8.1.1, it's an Iphone 6, and I use Exchange for my work email on it just fine. Same result with the iPad.

I suspect that your solution may work only for Google Apps for Work, Education, and Government users.