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Lucky me; Iām usually done on iNat by 10:30pmā¦just missing the downtime by thirty minutes or so!
Iām so upset whenever the downtime is at a time when Iām around. Last time it went down in the middle of IDāing, right in the middle of my āscheduledā iNat time
such long downtimes are a blessing for people who has to do iNat homework like me
I am delaying to learn Monkey moths, which are in thousands of observations on iNat now and has around 4 dozen or so described species in India, because its always easy to ID known things or learn very few new things at a time over learning the entire family from obscure textual descriptions when no photographic specimens nor full revisions exist. There is a real tension here over not committing to ID anything in family because not all genera and species are understood, especially when the genera boundaries itself are in very dynamic flux in recent years versus always IDing confidently to species (best case) but only after learning the full family for lookalikes.
Fortunately over the last decade some new and tiny genera in this family are revised with type photos thanks to works of Nassig and Naumann and others; and when there is ample data on iNat, as this family, things will be far easier to one-one map descriptions to topographical observations and build IDs one at a time. ofc there will always be undescribed n.sp but its a step up for those too in realising them.
This is from 0 to 6 for me, which cuts out my usual ID time, which is starting around 5 while Iām waiting for breakfast to cook, but since Iām making stock tonight, Iād be IDing around 4.
Why do you put the time in Pacific instead of UTC? Everyone knows his offset from UTC, but I know my offset from Pacific only because I live in America and have relatives in California.
I believe iNaturalist is based in CA so in Pacific time. They always provide a ācalculate to your local timeā thingie in the announcements anyway so those of us without relatives there can still easily verify our math.
I do not know my time in UTC. I have no need of this. I know how many hours ahead/behind various cities are and that is it.
Woke up to a cold raining wet day and no iNat from 6 am to 12 pm. Oh Well, breakfast, make pancake batter for lunch, crop the last images of a batch of images from the Karoo and maybe get out later and see if I can finally get an image of those terrapins collecting in the pools (taunting me and I keep missing them). Iāve just come of a three week period of bad to worse internet and had iNat withdrawal for days on end, so Iām pretty sure this 6+ hours will be childās play
