IPad Calendar alert bugs

The alert times that appear for some events on my iPad are incorrect, and even change themselves right before my eyes!!  It's truly bizarre.
I typically use my iPhone 4S (iOS 6.0.1) to create these events, using a well-regarded app called Week Calendar.  I have found that events created this way are perfectly synced to both the iPhone default Calendar app and my iCloud calendar.  But I noticed today that the alert times are not correctly appearing on my iPad (which also syncs to iCloud).
On the problematic events, I am setting 2 alerts on my iPhone: the first at 1 hour, 30 minutes before and the second at 53 minutes before (this is one of the nice features of Week Calendar - it lets you set alerts at any number of days, hours, and minutes before the event). 
When viewed in either Week Cal, or the iPhone default Calendar app, or web-based iCloud, the alerts appear correctly as they were set.  But on my iPad, where I only use the default Calendar app, the alert times sometimes switch the 90-minute alert to just 15 minutes, or the 53-minute alert to 15 minutes, or any other combination thereof.  And the alert times actually change themselves (sometimes) as I flip between Month, Week, and Day views.  And they even change themselves when I'm just looking at the screen, not doing anything on the iPad!! 
Has anyone else seen this wacky behavior? 

Thanks for your reply, Appletini6.  Okay, I just tried this test:
1. I turned OFF my iPhone.  So the Week Cal app cannot possibly be interfering with anything.
2. I entered a new event on www.icloud.com, setting the 1st alert for 2 hours before and the 2nd alert for 30 minutes before.
3. When I viewed the event on my iPad, it showed the 2nd alert at 15 minutes before rather then 30!
4. Several seconds later, without any action on my part, the iPad event showed the 2nd alert as being 30 minutes (which is correct) and the 1st alert set to 15 minutes (instead of 2 hours)!!
5. The alerts are still set to "2 hours before" and "30 minutes before" when viewed on my iCloud calendar at www.icloud.com.
So explain that!!

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