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

@Karnfar, thanks for the past events info. I hope it does work for others.

Hey, those that think this is NOT an iOS bug, and it's fixed for you, maybe unsubscribe from this thread, or start a different thread (for whatever reason you may need to).

I use Google calendar and know they've changed something on their end, but their change does not help thousands of other users with other exchange server calendars or even "subscribed" calendars through GCal.

Semantics aside (ie belief in a bug or not despite documentation of a bug), the GMT behavior is undesirable and persists for iOS users with different calendars. This thread needs to persist until the issue is fixed for all, not just a subset of GCal users.

Thank you too. Until Apple or whoever fixes this GMT problem, there may be some work arounds that help. As long as the conversation and fixes keep being posted. And now onto 8.1.3 !

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@KarnFar and others maybe you can help me work this out. Here’s what I see...

It appears to me that Apple created a feature to display (time/time zone) in each event IF the time zone is different from the time zone of the Calendar app. (Perhaps this was a new feature in iOS 8 and Yosemite, but I can’t remember how things used to work in earlier OS versions.) So, now the logic is as follows...

When the time zone of the Calendar app and the event are the same, no alternate (time/time zone) appears.

When the time zone of the Calendar app and the event are different, (time/time zone) appears to display the event’s original time and time zone.

Along the way, in iOS 8 and Yosemite, new Calendar events sync to the time and time zone of the service and thus displayed (GMT time/GMT) when the Calendar app was not in GMT. It then appears that Google has now changed this to point to the user’s Google Calendar Time zone and instead of the Google base time zone and voila!, here we are… if your Calendar app and Google Calendar are in the same time zone, which they typically are, then (time/time zone) disappears from the events. As @KarnFar points out, there is a nice shortcut for cleaning up a batch of past events that got shifted to GMT.

However, I think there is still a bug - shouldn’t a new event retain the time zone of the Calendar app rather than the service it’s syncing to? In fact, when you change the time zone for an event, the new time zone is saved (as expected) and the logic outlined above still applies. I’m hoping that the 8.2 release fixes this apparent bug so that new events adopt the time zone of the Calendar app (whether the time zone comes from iOS or Mac OS or the Time Zone Override) rather than the calendar service. That seems like a more consistent behavior to me anyway.

Thoughts anyone?

It sure has been a frustrating ride for several months now. Esp odd are the new posters who seemingly forget to read even a short ways back in the 800 posts to see the facts. Some have given suggestions, even multiple times, that have been posted months ago and are just misleading. Given the many articles in the media and statements from Apple it is easy to see how some folks get frustrated. Thanks to JG in SB for the clear posts of relevant facts.

It is amazing how reasonable you have continued to be even in the face of frustrating 'come lately' opinions. Stick with it. Hope for no more GMT BUG in our futures.

As an iPhone 5 user with both a Google Calendar and Exchange calendar synced to my device, I've been experiencing this problem for the last few months just like everyone else here, looking desperately for a fix or workaround. I have waited a few days before posting, monitoring this thread to see if others have had the problem clear up. I myself am no longer experiencing any GMT timezone problem, with no change being done on my part. Neither my Google or Exchange calendars have any problem when creating or syncing new or past events. I noticed the change a few days after updating to iOS 8.1.3, which MIGHT (but might not) be when the change occurred. I simply wanted to add to the conversation that I've seen both types of calendars get "fixed" at the same time, which to me means it was more Apple's problem than anyone else's. I am happy that the problem appears "resolved" for me, and hope it never reoccurs in the future!

Hmmm…no response. Maybe my last post was too confusing. Or maybe everyone is just tired of all of this. But I suspect that this whole time zone problem has 2 components, which is why we’re seeing different behavior with different services. How about a simpler approach:

Google Calendar users, try this: change the time zone in iOS, then schedule an event in the Calendar App. Notice that after syncing, the Google Calendar time and time zone appears in parenthesis (this USED to show the GMT time, until the recent Google Calendar change). I think this is still a problem, but since most people have the Google Calendar time zone set to the same time zone as their iPhones (and Macs), the problem has essentially gone away for them.

For example, if your Google Calendar is in PST and your iPhone is in CST and you schedule a meeting at 3pm CST, then (1pm PST) will appear in the event after syncing. In fact the event you just scheduled got switched from CST to PST. But you just scheduled the event on your phone in CST, so you'd think it would retain the local time zone of your phone. I think that this is a bug and if so, I’m curious if it is fixed in iOS 8.2. This fix should also address the GMT problem with all other services that still point to GMT rather than a user set time zone.

By the way, I have been following along on this thread for several months, so unless I got tired of reading and missed it, I haven’t seen this particular angle. Please forgive me if I missed it.

I sync using Google calendar and fortunately for me the GMT issue has gone away. I am convinced this is an IOS bug. For those of you who don't think this is the case please explain why, prior to the workaround that Google did, when I tried to edit an appointment on my iPhone that was entered for 10 AM Pacific time, the time showed up as GMT time on the edit screen. If Apple recognized the appointment time as 10 AM Pacific, which it did since that is when it showed in my calendar, why didn't that same time display when editing the appointment time? The only answer can be is that there was, and still is, a bug in IOS.

Yes... the bug IS still there. And you can see it by changing your iOS time zone and scheduling a meeting. When it sync's with Google Calendar, the event's time and time zone will change and the Google Calendar time will appear. That's the iOS Calendar bug (AKA GMT bug). (BTW, I see it in Mac OS Calendar, too... do you?)

Not sure why Google went to all the trouble to deploy a work-around, but I suspect that they had tons of complaints and Apple clearly wasn't responding, so they took things into their own hands. It's not a true fix, but it makes the GMT issue go away for many if not most Google Calendar users. I suspect those who travel across time zones still see the problem.

I was able to get GMT off of my iCal on my Mac by first removing my Google

Calendar, then re-adding it. (This does not work on iOS)

Enabling Time Zone Override in Settings made this show up. Disabling it made this issue disappear. I noticed it began when I traveled to a different time zone and all of my events got stuck in that time zone so I enabled time zone override but then this issue happened. I just disabled it now to see and it seems to have been resolved (it doesn't show the GMT time anymore).

Oh My GOD!! Some people NEVER READ PREVIOUS POSTS before adding a comment!! Sorry, but it's beginning to drive me nuts! C'mon, use your head!! New rule: Don't write on a post unless you've read at least 5 pages of a huge link such as this please. Then you'll know that it's not because of enabling "Time Zone Overide" and other ideas that have been discussed to exhaustion! Wow, had to get that off my chest. I think it's time for me to unsubscribe to this post.

1) I DID read the first and last 3 pages of posts before adding a comment, including all of that mess regarding resetting Exchange Calendars which I did not want to deal with. At that point I simply disabled Time Zone Override since I enabled it in the past and my solution worked for me on iPhone 6 iOS 8.1 (not 8.1.3) so I gave up reading the other 50 pages.

2) I did what I said I did and it worked for me and the issue was resolved for me, so I'm sharing it in the hopes it helps other people. I DISABLED Time Zone Override. Enabling it caused the GMT to show up for me and disabling it made it go away, which was the original problem I Googled that led me to this discussion. The ideas that have been "discussed to exhaustion" did not involve DISabling Time Zone Override.
3) Yes, get it off your chest, and then click unsubscribe if you're still following this discussion and you've tried everyone's suggestions including my own. You don't have to be a keyhole about it.

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Ok Earl, you did pass the 5 page rule so I'll give you some props there. My post was just written for all of us who have been following all along and have had many others add " the fix" without reading anything. If you really read my post you would see that I was joking a little more than you thought. Apparently you are the kinda guy that has a hard time with a response to you that's a little off color. I suggest you unwind with a rest and realize that I didn't mean to ruin your day. I'm more of a fun guy. I'm glad you were trying to help others though. Sorry you took it as me being such a hahakeyhole.

First post here, read about the first 20 pages, then skipped to last 5 or so. My situation: I migrated from Google Calendar to iCloud today. Exported the .ics from Google Calendar, mailed them to myself and imported them on my iPad 3 from Mail.app by opening them in Calendar and adding the events to the corresponding, newly created calendars. Everything worked out great. On the iPad where I imported them, all appointments are shown correctly, no GMT shown. However, on our other iPad 3 as well as two new iPhone 4S, they're shown in GMT. Not sure if this adds something to the discussion, just wanted to share and couldn't find a similar scenario on the pages I've read so far. I decided to install a third party Calendar app, everything is great on all devices. Strange behaviour.

Yes, my google calendar freezes also - in my case, when I try to edit or delete an event from my iPhone 5.

I have decided to "live with" the GMT bug and wait for a fix from Apple...or move to Togo, as a few others have suggested.

My unacceptable issue now with Google Calendar is that I cannot add, edit or delete events from my iPhone 5 (iOS 8). Until yesterday (2/22/15), I was using paper and making adds, moves and changes on my laptop / web Google Calendar, and it would sync with my iPhone Google Calendar. Today, this synch is not happening.

In another thread, it was suggested to delete my Gmail account, reset network settings, turn off wifi after reboot, and re-install my Gmail account. Now my phone is freezing when I try to delete my Gmail account!