Just noticed that the last 200+ entries I’ve made while in Arizona have automatically entered EDT as the time zone! Is there any way of batch correcting this? Really don’t want to edit each entry individually. And how is it that INaturalist “knows” to put in EDT automatically?

It can depend on the device you’re using and how it is adding the time to the photos EXIF data. For instance, with my p/s camera, if I have time zone set to Eastern, it will upload as that, regardless of the location the observation is made.

I’ve been having a similar issue where the majority of my photos have been uploaded as UTC, despite being taken as EDT. No idea how to fix it other than doing it manually.

Here’s an example I just encountered today. I took these pictures using two different phone cameras (myself and a friend) and when I uploaded the files to iNaturalist it records the time taken as 9:35 Greenwich Mean Time (UTC), i.e. 5:35 AM EDT, but I recorded the time the photos were taken by hand …

Every user must set up a time zone in profile settings otherwise system will choose UTS or HST.

I think in your settings you can change your timezone and update it to mst

I looked in Profile and didn’t see anything about time zone.

It’s in Account Settings. [image]

So here is my issue: My photos were taken across half the world, in many different time zones. It makes little sense for them all to show up as PDT, since 2pm in Namibia is an entirely different time of the day (or night) in California. A daytime picture (because it was taken during the local dayti…

Of course, in edit you can type in a time zone , but want to say having multiple time zones can lead to confusion so do it carefully.

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