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

I've read through most of this thread and spoken with Apple. They have accepted screenshots and said they are working on it. It is clear the problem is Apple/iOS 8.

But here is a question for those who have a more technical bent - I have found that on an even-by-event basis, the following will correct an entry. It is far too complicated to be a reasonable workaround, but it raises the question, "why does this stop the problem?" considering the breadth to the issue as described by a number of commenters here. In other words, will it help someone find an answer to what is causing it if the following stops it:

1) Enter an event as you normally would. 2) Select "Add". 3) GMT shows up. 4) Go back and edit the event (notice that the start time now shows GMT in the edit mode) 5) select "starts" and when the start-time wheel shows up, select "Time Zone" and reset it to the local time zone (this requires clearing the GMT and entering a few letters of the nearest large city in your time zone). 5) be sure to set the time again to the correct beginning time (because OS has also now set the starting time to the GMT equivalent). 6) Select "Done" 7) Return to the date display.

What is interesting (once you get over the basic issue, which is maddening) is that now the GMT is gone. And you can drag it to a different start time and the GMT will not reappear. If you go through those steps in the original setting of the appointment, iOS won't get it right. So why does it get it right when you enter the same information the second time during the edit.

As I said, it is way too cumbersome to do this for every appointment, but why does essentially the same setting the second time convince iOS that you just want your local time but it doesn't make it work initially?

I have been having the same problem on my iPhone 5s since I updated to OS 8.2.1

I spent about 3 hours on chat and on the phone with Apple technical support, and they were unable to resolve the problem. I find that if I create an event on ical on my phone or on my macbook that the event shows up with PST and GMT. In list view, the event lists with PST (the correct time zone that I am in). When I go to event details, both time zones show, and if I have to edit the event (like change the time of a meeting or day), then it defaults to GMT. Very frustrating! Apple has been unable to fix this at this point, yet did say that there were aware that others were experiencing this same problem. I have not had a problem with events adding on my iPhone in ical that are synced through exchange (my work calendar). The main issue is with my "home" calendar, which is synced through Google. It is very cumbersome to create an event, then to have to immediately edit it in order to erase the GMT and make sure it displays only the PST.

Event details > time zone > select Cupertino (type this in) > then go back and set the correct time of the event.

I have started creating events in Google instead of using ical on my phone right now, because of this issue. It seems to be a bug with the update of OS 8. My hope is that Apple will fix this soon. If anyone has found another work around for creating events in ical on the iPhone, without getting two different time zones appearing, I would like to hear it.

I just figured out how to stop this. Like all of you I have been using Google calendar and syncing it to iCal on my Mac and the iPhone calendar. I had no problem until upgrading my operating system. Then all of a sudden I get the annoying and inconvenient GMT on my iPhone (Never had a problem on the Mac). Fortunately for me my husband also gets my calendar on his iPhone and he did NOT have the problem after upgrading. I isolated the problem by comparing our set ups. The difference was this: in settings he made the default calendar his iCloud calendar- I had not, my default was my google calendar (I had not been using iCloud for my calendar). Anyway I changed the default to my iCloud home calendar and all the appointments stayed the same but the annoying GMT went away. Hope this helps everyone!

When I would create a NEW event in my iPhone6 it would appear to create the event in EST (my correct time zone) and all was fine UNLESS I went to edit the event. Then, on the edit page, it would show GMT. The GMT time was "correct" (it was 5 hours off from my EST) but it was a pain to keep calculating the correct GMT time if I needed to change the appt time. (I do not use exchange ... only gmail.)

This was new problem that JUST appeared out of the blue today with my making zero changes.

I am not going to say this will work for everyone but for me the problem disappeared totally when I deleted my gmail account and reinstalled it.

Now I can create a new event and edit it ... or edit an old event .. and all I see is EST, my correct time zone.

So it's "fixed" until the bug pops up again which could be in days or weeks and since I don't know why it popped up this time I don't know how to prevent a recurrence but ... deleting and reinstalling my gmail account from my iPhone fixed it for me.

I went to the peachmac store today with the same issue. Cannot change the ones that are there, but go to general, date and time and click Set Automatically. You should be in your correct time zone. Another wonder of ios 8 and Apple!!

this works for me.

1. Go to Settings then choose Mails, Contacts, Calendars

2. Scroll down to the Calendars section, then select Time Zone Override.

3. Toggle Time Zone Override to on

NOw, your calendar should show events in your time zone.

hope this helps.

FOr me it was showing the correct time in where it was sitting in the calendar but then showing GMT time in brackets. I seemed to fix this by going into gmail calendar and changing my time zone back to where I am at. so far so good

I "fixed" the problem by setting my iCloud calendar as the default, rather than my preference of Google. Using any other calendar (Google, outlook, etc) causes the London time zone to appear under my time zone in the event. I wonder if Apple created this bug to force people to use iCloud...just a thought...

I found a way to fix my current events that show the GMT time on my iPhone. I can also replicate the issue and fix it.

Basically if I create any appointments on my iphone they will have the GMT time. If I create the appointments through Google calendar like many have suggested it will be fine, so it is definitely a bug in iOS 8 which has already been determined. So, how do I fix the time?

1) In google calendar edit the event

2) Click on Time Zone next to the date and time of the event (blue Time Zone link) and set your time zone.

3) Save the event

4) Refresh calendars on your iphone

GMT should be gone!

Again, this is for those who want to fix their current events. If you create any new events on the iphone you will have the same problem. This is something Apple has to fix.

Hope this helps!!!

Zak456/Richard-

yes!! The sunrise app works just as you said. Create an appt in sunrise, and it automatically adds it to the iOS calendar with no GMT. Even when you edit the said appt in iOS, the orig time zone is there and does not revert to GMT. The perfect "fix" until this bloody bug is fixed!!

I have been monitoring this thread for weeks and the workaround I've been using is to set my appts in iOS as daily recurring appts ending on the same day as the appt. It works but I'm so tired of doing it. Thank you for sharing!!!!

I have read every single entry in this thread and NONE of the "solutions" worked for me. To be perfectly clear I had my new phone with ios 8 for 32 days and did not have this issue. I didnt make any changes or do any updates to phone and just one random day, the gmt bug got me. Nearly every day at my office a new person catches this bug (without changing any settings) and everyone is going mad! Our shared calendars are totally screwed! The only work around that is half way reasonable is to make an appointment as an all day event (ending the same day) and for some reason all day events are immune to the gmt bug.

Appointments made in gmail sync to iphone/ipad without gmt issue. Events input in iphone/ipad immediately change to gmt on device but sync to gmail correctly.

Myself and several others in my office have tried:

Verified and reverified and reverified that time zone is correct on device(s) and gmail. It doesnt say gmt anywhere.

Turning on and off time zone over ride.

Turning on and off setting time zone automatically (and every combination of the two)

Removing and reinstalling google. (several times)

Removing google and installing exchange (still had the issue)

Change default calendar to hotmail (which I dont use at all for work, etc) and still had the issue.

Switching several appointments from GMT to my time zone to see if all appts would change- they didnt

Hard reset of phone

Factory reset of phone restoring from backup.

I am sure there are other suggestions we tried as well but none worked.

This is a bug and it is ridiculous Apple would even dare to imply this feature is intentional- especially since the problem doesnt impact the icloud calendar.

Sorry natzoo, but that doesn't "fix it." There are several of us who have spent far longer than four hours over the past 3+ months working on this. There is no easy simple fix. It's amusing how often someone will show up at the end of an ongoing 480+ comment support thread and proclaim that they are the first person to have discovered "THE FIX!!"

I don't know if you are referring to something displaying on your MacBook calendar, or if you think you have discovered a fix for the actual bug being discussed in this thread, which occurs when buggy code in the iOS operating system causes your appointments to pick up the time zone set on your server's time clock and then transpose your appointments to that time. If it's the latter, which is what is being discussed here....I can assure you that you didn't figure out how to "fix it."

Here's an article about what causes this bug:

http://blog.appriver.com/2014/12/ios-8-calendar-events-display-dual-time-zones/

It has nothing to do with some setting on your MacBook calendar. People who don't even use a Mac are experiencing this bug. This is due to poorly written code in iOS that Apple released without any quality testing whatsoever. The only people who can "fix it" are the software developers at Apple.

Count me in as well. Syncing to Google Calendar, so all new events are assigned the GMT time zone when they sync to Google -- regardless of what time zone I have assigned them originally (even one that's not my native time zone).

I noticed that if I put the phone in Airplane mode before creating the event, it is -- initially -- created perfectly with the right time zone; taking the phone out of Airplane mode allows it to sync to Google and that's when the GMT assignment takes effect. In addition, if I assign a non-native time zone to the event, it doesn't get passed to Google either! Example: I'm in the US Eastern time zone and so I've set my default time zone in Google Calendar to US Eastern (GMT-5). I create an event with Calendar app in timezone GMT+1. After it syncs to Google, it's in GMT on the phone and GMT-5 on Google's server. The correct time zone information is lost completely. I imagine most users with the problem will see the same behavior.

Contacted Apple, created a ticket, conveyed all this info with screen shots etc. Now all we can do is wait and hope, I guess. I too have switched to the Sunrise Calendar app to bypass the issue, and may stick with it.

In the calendar app:

tap "calendars" at the bottom

scroll down to "all icloud" and uncheck it

tap "done"

all of my entries are now at the correct time zone "New York" and it does not show GMT anymore.

I have my phone synced to 2 gmail calendars and 2 yahoo calendars and 1 outlook calendar, so I didn't need an icloud calendar as well.

Hope this helps....

AdvenOct 29, 2014 6:42 PM Re: iOS 8 Calendar on iPhone showing GMT times for new events.
Re: iOS 8 Calendar on iPhone showing GMT times for new events.in response to James Barber

This solution may or may not work for others, but it appears to have worked on mine. From Month view, tap a calendar entry with GMT listed, tap Edit, tap Starts, tap Time Zone, type current time zone city and select from drop-down, tap Edit Event, Do same for Ends. tap Done. If it didn't work, try same steps with two more existing calendar entries. When I did it, all GMT references disappeared.

Hope it works for you.

Thanks, that worked for me!

My appointments were being placed in the GMT time slot with my local time of the appointment displaying correctly. For example, if I made a 10:15 AM PST appointment, it would display the correct time, with the calendar placing it at 3AM GMT. Sorry, I don't know how to do screen shots here, but following Adven's steps and setting my city made GMT disappear.