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

This didn't work for me.

Nothing has worked for me either.  If I enter the appointment via browser on Google calendar no GMT displays in calendar on my iPhone.  I only have the problem when I enter an appointment on my iPhone.  When I do that, it shows a GMT time on the iPhone calendar.  It just started for me with the latest iOS update.  With all the other bugs that keep happening, this will probably be my last iPhone.

A temporary solution is to enter the appointment as usual on your iOS device. After you click Add, the GMT will appear. Then edit the appointment, change it to an All Day appt and then immediately change it back to a non-all day appt; The time listed for the appt will now be the GMT time but you can now change it back to the proper time. do that and save the appt and the GMT entry will go away. As I said, a pain for each new appt but its worked for me.

The only thing that I find works so far is to create a time zone override in your city. For instance, I changed mine to Chicago on both my iPhone and iPad, and it seems to have worked.

Same problem here since we use ios8.1.2 on two iphone 6's. Google agenda with Caldav config.

Question:

when I create a appt on the iphone and I select the time (from,till) it says timezone=Amsterdam. After creation the gmt bug appears. When I reopen the appt, select time from, it says timezone gmt??? When I correct this back to Amsterdam...the bug is gone.

What made the timezone change from Amsterdam to GMT? Is this Google or is this iOS?

In google zone is amsterdam, override on iphone is amsterdam too...never bothered us before ios8

Step by step...in Dutch

Gator5000e wrote:

 

A temporary solution is to enter the appointment as usual on your iOS device. After you click Add, the GMT will appear. Then edit the appointment, change it to an All Day appt and then immediately change it back to a non-all day appt; The time listed for the appt will now be the GMT time but you can now change it back to the proper time. do that and save the appt and the GMT entry will go away. As I said, a pain for each new appt but its worked for me.

This worked! thanks!

Apples needs to come up with a proper fix. This is obviously an IOS8 bug.

The suggestion of setting my Time Zone in iCloud preferences did not work for me. Appears to be a deeper, rooted problem in the OS. This appears to be one of these "features" that the developers have over thought.

Wow Gator5000e. Thanks for the convoluted, yet solid work around for getting the GMT notation to disappear from your iCal events. This worked great. In fact, it let me demonstrate one other technique that also worked:

After entering a new event, go back and edit it.

When you tap on the start time, it reveals a time zone as well - GMT.

Change the time zone to your local city.

Back up the appt start time to the original time (I am Eastern US. GMT -5 in the winter)

Save it. The GMT display goes away.

Still stupid that you have to edit an event after creating it just to get the GMT to disappear. Definitely a bug.

I guess I'm just too impatient to go through a multi-step process for each event. Fortunately for me, connecting to my Google account through the Exchange setup has made it so new events on my iPhone retain the correct time and don't revert to GMT. And I have my Google account connect the usual way for all my other calendars (Turning off the main calendar to avoid duplication)

Although I've recently discovered another irksome thing with that setup. Even when I have the calendar turned off, and only one set of events appears in the calendar, I seem to be getting two alerts for each event. As if my iPhone is still giving me alerts even though that particular calendar is disabled.

Strange.

Having read this thread carefully starting on page 13, I concur with your assessment and have reported the bug to Apple, as you suggested.

Thank you, JG in SB, for all of your careful debugging efforts, for your logical approach, and for succinctly outlining the problem as you found it.  I ran through a very similar process and discovered the same set of factors contributing to the problem.

For completeness, I have an iPhone 6, an iPad 2 - both running iOS 8.1.2, and a Macbook Pro with Outlook 2011 and using Google calendar.  I do not use Exchange.  All syncing is done through the applications mentioned.  The problem first occurred when I upgraded to the iPhone 6, and showed up on the iPad when I updated it to iOS 8 for the first time.  To be precise, I purchased the iPhone 6 and then changed time zones from EDT to Mountain.  THAT's when I first noticed the problem.

Again, thank you!

There is still no viable fix for iCal on iOS?

There are working instructions to fix this in iCal on Mac.
- System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendar, remove gmail account with the sign.
- Restart your computer.
- System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendar, add your gmail account (particularly calendar).
- Wait for the calendar to sync

I tried similar on my iPhone 4S and it doesn't work. 1/2 of this issue is taken care of, but weird that Apple hasn't pushed a fix yet for iPhone Cal

The only thing that worked for me is the workaround suggested by Gator5000e:

Gator5000e wrote:

A temporary solution is to enter the appointment as usual on your iOS device. After you click Add, the GMT will appear. Then edit the appointment, change it to an All Day appt and then immediately change it back to a non-all day appt; The time listed for the appt will now be the GMT time but you can now change it back to the proper time. do that and save the appt and the GMT entry will go away. As I said, a pain for each new appt but its worked for me.

However, I just wanted to chime in that this GMT problem appeared out of the blue about a week or so ago, on my iPhone5, running OS 6.0. I had never updated my OS on my old phone. Out of nowhere, this GMT thing popped up. I figured this happened because I never updated my OS and the phone had started acting wonky in other areas too. My phone syncs with google calendar only. I got a new iPhone6 today, with OS8.1.1 on it. I restored my new phone with a back up of my old phone. The GMT problem followed. My point is, this problem appeared on the OS6.0. So it can't just be a problem with OS8 and above.

Nothing has fixed this issue for our iPhones.  Waiting for Apple to fix the problem.

bug report sent.

How do you send a bug report? I was just looking for that.