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

Unfortunately, my iCloud account was ALREADY set to the right time zone.  So there's nothing to fix.

Same here.

It appears iOS now saves calendar events to the cloud that can't always be read correctly by OSX.  They've got it working so iOS and iCloud Calendar can read each other's iCloud-saved events, but OSX misinterprets them as being created with the wrong time zone (GMT +3:00 instead of +4:00 for me).

I'm pretty sure this problem is because I'm in Moscow Russia (GMT +4:00 and we don't observe Daylight Savings time) and they just haven't adjusted iCloud for that.  This was a problem with Android awhile back.  Anyone have any input on this?  Do we all have this in common?

Here's what I know:

My time zones are all set correctly. iCal still defaults to GMT +3:00 on my MacBook for new events added by my iPad,iPhone and in the online iCloud or Google Calendars.

Deleting my calendar and reinstalling has no effect (Mac has trouble reading Google as well as iCal anyway, so that isn't the problem but I tried).

Events added on my iPhone, iPad and iCloud Calendar all read each other correctly.

iCal events added on my Mac show up correctly (without GMT adjustment) on all three devices and iCloud Calendar.

***Google calendar events added on iPhone/iPad are also off by one hour on my Mac and won't stay modified to the correct time zone (after I change the the individual event's time zone on my Mac it then appears to read iCloud and changes back after a few seconds.  This is what makes me think it is the way my Mac reads the cloud in general, because with Google Calendar events, iCal always forces the event time zone back to East Africa which is GMT +3:00, but all Apple events read GMT +3:00... so it is the same exact problem with a different display name in the 'Get Info' window for the time zone field using Google Calendar).***

My time zone: GMT +4:00

iPhone 5: iOS 8.1 (12B411)

iPad 3 Retina: 8.1 (12B410)

MacBook Pro Late 2011:Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

Help fixing this would be appreciated as I have dozens of calendar events each week for work, I'm often away when I add events from my phone and keeping everything straight on my Mac iCal is driving me crazy.

I spent 2 hours troubleshooting my iPhone (again) before Apple would escalate my call.  Here's what they have said:  It's reflecting the server time that holds your email account.

Engineering passed down that it depends on what time zone your email server is on.  You have to change the settings or move a mountain and see if your email service provider will fix this issue.

Currently, Apple is now aware of this issue because NO ONE calls and they don't know how they are going to address the issue as to whether or not they can shut the feature off.  For those of you who are not experiencing this yet, they said they expect it to trickle down. 

There you go. 

Before I saw this discussion thread I went to the Genius Bar and the gene is there told me she had never seen this problem before and found it very strange that my phone was automatically sent to Cupertino time she had "never heard of that"

She called for her genius  supervisor and he said this was clearly a problem with the exchange server and had nothing to do with the Apple software

Total nonsense. The bug was introduced by IOS8. So they're saying that something in the Exchange server magically developed an issue at the same time? It's an IOS8 bug.

I have this problem and I don't even use Exchange. For me, it happens when events are imported from Gmail.

Agreed. I have this problem with gmail and have verified the server time is set to my zone, which IS Cupertino as a matter of fact.

Solution:

Change your iCloud settings at www.iCloud.com from GMT to your correct TimeZone.

Delete your calendar entries that are in error.

Add your calendar entries back into your calendar.

Would be nice, but many of us are ALREADY set to the correct timezone in icloud.com, and are still having this problem.

Solution:

1) Verify your ICould settings and if your timezone is incorrect, change your iCloud settings at www.iCloud.com from GMT to your correct TimeZone.

Then, regardless of whether your settings were correct or not:

2) Delete your calendar entries that are in error.

3) Add your calendar entries back into your calendar.

I use gmail for my email and have an iPhone 4S running iOS 8.1.

I had this same problem this morning and the steps above worked for me. The Apple email client now allows you to incorporated drive time into your schedule so maybe something has changed that affects older calendar entries. Also, I had just signed up for iCloud to use the reminders (which uses iCloud email) so my timezone was incorrect. Your situation may differ but steps 2) and 3) should fix your problem anyway however your timezone got changed.

LeeO_fromNorfolkVA wrote:

 

Solution:

1) Verify your ICould settings and if your timezone is incorrect, change your iCloud settings at www.iCloud.com from GMT to your correct TimeZone.

Then, regardless of whether your settings were correct or not:

2) Delete your calendar entries that are in error.

3) Add your calendar entries back into your calendar.

 

I use gmail for my email and have an iPhone 4S running iOS 8.1.

I had this same problem this morning and the steps above worked for me. The Apple email client now allows you to incorporated drive time into your schedule so maybe something has changed that affects older calendar entries. Also, I had just signed up for iCloud to use the reminders (which uses iCloud email) so my timezone was incorrect. Your situation may differ but steps 2) and 3) should fix your problem anyway however your timezone got changed.

My existing icloud setting is to the correct timezone already. Do you have Timezone Support set to On or Off?

TImezone override must be off. You must delete the calendar entries and re-add them. then they will work correctly. There is no avoiding deleting the calendar entries that are in error.

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.

Did not work. My iCloud settings were correct (East Coast), yet Cupertino was set for iOS 8 time zone. It's an annoying bug, to say the least.

I am having the same issue (occuring on an iPad with iOS 8.1). None of the suggested solutions work for me.

All is fine when I add events on either the iPad or Google's web interface. Only when I add an event using my android phone it shows up on the iPad with the GMT time added. I am in CET/Amsterdam myself.

Suggested diagnosis: So I would suppose my phone somehow creates events with something of a GMT 'footprint' somewhere on Google's server. Google's web interface and the phone itself simply show the CET time as desired, but some 'feature' in iOS makes the iPad also show the GMT time. This doesn't occur with events created through Google's web interface or the iPad, as these don't create the GMT 'footprint' on the server.

Suggested solution: Apple removing the feature of also showing the GMT time, or my android application stopping creating that GMT 'footprint' in the first place.

This is 100% a provlem with iOS 8/8.1.  How am I so sure?

1)  The same calendar items show correctly on my old, 7.1 iPad (same icloud account, same Exchange account)

2)   There  is no way the Exchange server is somewhere in the GMT zone.....that is just sad for the so-called genius bar folks to come up with that.

3)   This has occured on an older iPad Air I upgraded as well as on a grand new iPad Air2 that came factory installed with 8.1

I am more than a little disappointed with Apple right now.  It is one thing to release OS with zillions of bugs.....the incessant finger-pointing at users and other third-party companies is making them look worse than makers of other OS IMO. I have almost zero confidence the issues will ever get fixed, and it is clear that their upgrade process is broken, so they mostly tell everyone to "lose data" by wiping and re-installing all apps fresh.   That is no solution for those of us who are heavily invested in apps and back up to iTunes religiously to preserve data.  SMH....