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iPhone <-->iCal Sync = Wrong Times

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DSchwartz88

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So out of no where after i restored my iPhone the other day when i sync my calendar with iCal the time on the iPhone are all wrong. It says i have appointments at 8am when they arent till 4pm. This happen to anyone? Anyway to fix it? Anyone know why this is happening all of a sudden?

Daniel
 
You probably have the time zone set wrong on either your computer or your iPhone, and probably has something to do with "time zone support" in iCal advanced options.
 
I have an even weirder problem that has been there since 1.0.0. All my Monday appointments are off by one hour, but the rest of the week are fine. All the appointments in iCal, including monday, are correct. Maybe my iPhone has a case of the Mondays? :)

-steve
 
iPhone <-->iCal Sync = Wrong Times

I have the same problem -- times on iPhone calendar 6 hours ahead of "real" (computer) time. Times zones both set. Help! going nuts!
 
alanan43 said:
I have the same problem -- times on iPhone calendar 6 hours ahead of "real" (computer) time. Times zones both set. Help! going nuts!
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The timezone for ICal and the calendar app on the iPhone may be right, but make sure the event itself in iCal is set to the correct time zone. Watch your time zones, there are several places they can be changed
 
Time conflict iphone & iCal

I was having a problem with my iphone and ical being off by one hour. The mistake that I was making was just going to the time under general on the iphone. The way to make the time be the same is to go under calendar on the iphone and change the time zone to the same under date and time on your mac under the system preferences.

That fixed my problem.
 
Persistent problem

I bought my iPhone and Macbook specifically because my lifestyle has reached a pace where a paper calendar just doesn't do it for me. I really, really need them to sync but for some reason my iPhone 4 INSISTS on setting my appointments back three hours! I have tried all of the suggested techniques here. I have reset my computer and my phone time zones (in both general and in calendar settings for the phone) to New York time and then tried to sync. I've tried setting both to "automatic" time zones. I have tried every combination of changing one and then the other, resyncing in between every thing. I have turned off my phone and my computer and restarted. I can't change the events manually because as soon as I plug my phone in again, they sync back to the old times! What can I do? I would be forever indebted to the kind soul who can help me. :)
 
Yeah, my iPhone 4 is doing exactly the same thing. It's changed all my iCal times by 3 hours. I did just move across country, but as far as i can tell, all my time zones are correct now and it's still not working. Please help!
 
actually, in the end, i hadn't changed all the timezones - the key was the calendar settings on my iphone. i suck. :(
 
ipod touch similar problem

I am having the same sort of problem. I have checked the time under system prefs on my iMAC (leopard) and on my ipod touch under settings>general> date time. They read the same but when I sync my calendars from my MAC to the touch the items are 9 hours later on the correct date. Is there some other place on the touch to change time settings?
 
I had the same problem.. All u have to do is go to settings - mail,contacts, calendars.. You will see at the bottom it says time zone support.. Turn that off.. That should fix it
 
thomas watkins said:
I was having a problem with my iphone and ical being off by one hour. The mistake that I was making was just going to the time under general on the iphone. The way to make the time be the same is to go under calendar on the iphone and change the time zone to the same under date and time on your mac under the system preferences.

That fixed my problem.
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Brilliant!! Thank you.
 
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