I have some code checked in (but not released) that automates setting the time zone of observations based on time zone boundaries extracted from Open Street Map . My extremely limited experiments suggest that these boundaries are really good… and that existing observation time zones are a total mess.…

Cool, my times should be correct then. I think some kind of indication that the time zone might be incorrect when creating the observation could be useful. [image] saturnring: It seems to me that if someone takes a photo in a faraway place but for whatever reason didn’t change the camera’s time…

Yes, it’s the same time zone shown for everyone.

[image] zabdiel: So would someone on the EST timezone see this observation as 8:27 PM GMT rather 3:27 PM EST? Yes, the time and time zone can be edited by the observer, but they are accurate without editing, and anyone can see the time zone that the observer was using to state the time.

[image] zabdiel: That would be useful in the case where you discover your camera has the wrong time after taking lots of photos. Case in point: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-batch-correct-times-on-observations-for-incorrect-clock/10010

[image] jdmore: I think that would be hugely helpful, in addition to being able to get coordinate-based time zones. I made this feature request a while ago, in case you want to vote/comment on it: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-time-zone-chooser-to-the-web-uploader/3096

Hmmm, looks like I already did comment on it.

I am totally with @kueda on this. It’s INFURIATING that iNat defaults to specifying the time zone that I’m in when uploading (Mac desktop web) rather than the time zone that the obs was made in. I have to go back and change each obs one by one and it wastes a huge amount of time. Can the uploader n…

Was anything pushed for this? I just noticed all my iPhone obs from Texas with correct times were applied with PST.

Nope. Still pending UI changes to the Uploader to address the concerns aired above.

Automatic time zones?

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Add time zone chooser to the web uploader Feature Requests web	19	2407	April 19, 2022
Time observed constantly changing iOS Bug Reports	11	580	March 26, 2022
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Inconsistency in how web upload screen sets time zone for a manually entered time, depending on where you enter the time Bug Reports web	4	714	June 4, 2020
Web bulk uploading from another time zone General	9	945	April 27, 2022

Automatic time zones?

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