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James Barber Author

Level 1

7 points

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

Hi everyone,

Since updating my iPhone 4S to iOS 8, the Calendar app now shows all my newly added events with GMT times, and not the local time (as I am not in GMT, I am +9 hours). All my previous and existing entries are displaying normally. I have not changed any settings at all. However, if I open one of the new events and enter the events details screen, the local times are clearly displayed along with a GMT equivalent time underneath it.

I have tried changing settings but nothing shows my events in local time as it did before the upgrade to iOS 8. Any ideas? Is this a bug? Am I missing a new setting? Many thanks in advance for your help or advice.

Cheers,

James.

iPhone 4S, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 21, 2014 2:16 AM

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wpalmerj

Level 1

5 points

Posted on Sep 23, 2014 8:59 AM

sorry no solution here, just jumping in to say I'm having the same issue on the 6. I hope there is a solution as this is pretty confusing.

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JG in SB

Level 1

9 points

Mar 26, 2015 8:38 AM in response to parkerbro9

This sounds like an entirely different issue altogether. You should start a new thread on it.

May 1, 2015 11:00 AM in response to James Barber

To fix this you must open the calendar event ics file in notepad and verify the time zone in the first part of the coding is the desired time zone. It should be the tzone. Mine said UTC and it should be Central Standard Time.

May 1, 2015 11:02 AM in response to Crystalsb2005

CCorrect it and re save the event To your calendar. It should display the right time zone when you subscribe on your iPhone. Not sure if it's Apple issue or outlook issue.

Subhaka

Level 1

0 points

Oct 15, 2015 8:23 PM in response to James Barber

It can be fixed, you shall try by following these steps

go to - settings

go to - mail, contacts, calendars

Then - Scroll down to the calendars section

Finally - Set the "time zone override" option to the required time zone.

I hope this helps.

dudalpg

Level 1

0 points

Oct 27, 2015 9:07 PM in response to James Barber

Hello,

I was having the same problem on my new computer. What I did solved my problem.

I went on settings-date & Time - Time zone tab- and then I selected the corrected time zone. ( I am in Los Angeles and the time zone was set for Chicago. My calendar was going crazy).

If you having problems on your Iphone I would go on:

settings- mail - time zone override (choose correct location) or just turn it off.

I hope it helps?

Stuart.W

Level 1

0 points

Oct 27, 2015 10:33 PM in response to dudalpg

Thanks. I don't have the problem anymore because I too switched off the time zone override. Note I did not say my problem was fixed because this is just a work-around and I have now lost functionality. Pretty poor on Apple's part when you think they have had several opportunities to fix it!

Jan 20, 2016 12:17 PM in response to richb16

Rich, thank you for posting this. I was banging my head as to why I had entries showing grid wise as local time but had an EST associated with every entry. I followed your steps and did the time zone override and it is now fixed.

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