Australian Time Anomalies

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website, but I don’t know if that is relevant

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Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox

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One of mine:
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One in Melbourne (Victoria)
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One in Sydney (NSW)
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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): I have noticed today that for observations in at least 3 Australian states, the observation time iNat is recording is an hour later than it should be, even though the time zone shows correctly as AEDT. It is as if iNat thinks daylight saving time has finished here today. It actually finishes tomorrow.
This issue may well resolve itself tomorrow, but in the meantime, there are observations in Vic, NSW, and SA (and probably Tas and ACT, but I haven’t seen any from there yet) which appear to have been uploaded up to an hour before they were observed.

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Now that daylight saving has actually finished, the times are working properly again. So this was just a 1-day bug.

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