# Bulk timezone update

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-timezone-update/73068>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** web, question\
**Created:** [November 24, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-timezone-update/73068 "2025-11-24T11:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![benworkinger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/benworkinger/32/2851_2.png) [@benworkinger](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/benworkinger)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-timezone-update/73068/1 "2025-11-24T11:15:41Z")

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I am currently on vacation in Australia and forgot to update the timezone on my camera. I have roughly 150 observations that are offset by about 10 hours. Is there any way to modify the timestamp as a batch edit after submission?

My main concern here is correctly recording whether a critter is diurnal or nocturnal.  
T.I.A.

Ben

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**Author:** ![yongestation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/yongestation/32/56696_2.png) [@yongestation](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/yongestation)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-timezone-update/73068/2 "2025-11-24T11:21:59Z")

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Unfortunately I don’t think there is a way to currently do this as a batch operation. See e.g. this feature request [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-option-to-batch-edit-time-by-a-number-of-hours/27898](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-option-to-batch-edit-time-by-a-number-of-hours/27898)

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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-timezone-update/73068/3 "2025-11-24T15:00:06Z")

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> [@benworkinger](#):
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> I am currently on vacation in Australia and forgot to update the timezone on my camera. I have roughly 150 observations that are offset by about 10 hours. Is there any way to modify the timestamp as a batch edit after submission?

there’s an option to offset time _during_ submission, but after submission, i think you’d have to do that via the API.

someone should make a tool or script to do this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-timezone-update/73068/4 "2026-01-23T15:00:33Z")

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