# Date not showing up when I submit a photo observation

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-not-showing-up-when-i-submit-a-photo-observation/72457>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [November 8, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-not-showing-up-when-i-submit-a-photo-observation/72457 "2025-11-08T05:39:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![leithallb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/leithallb/32/66081_2.png) [@leithallb](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/leithallb)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-not-showing-up-when-i-submit-a-photo-observation/72457/1 "2025-11-08T05:39:36Z")

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**Platform** :

**App version number** , if a mobile app issue:

**Browser** , if a website issue: Microsoft edge

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**Description of problem** :

Step 1: When I select the photo to use the date is showing up in the date field, but when I submitted the observation the date was missing so the observation was casual ( [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325422189](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325422189) and [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325419271](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325419271) )

Step 2: I have manually edited these observations to add the date

Step 3: I have subsequently added this observation [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325441511](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325441511) which worked correctly

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**Author:** ![IDfanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@IDfanatic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/IDfanatic)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-not-showing-up-when-i-submit-a-photo-observation/72457/2 "2025-11-08T05:54:05Z")

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All images taken with the same device? And, did you check that every photo had the data in the first place?  
Oh. Maybe I missunderstood.  
Do you mean that you entered the date and after uploading it got removed?

The one “working correctly” is off by 1 day tho:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/8/a/8a8409c206245adc4e4d45ad2c189756326eb632.png)

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**Author:** ![leithallb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/leithallb/32/66081_2.png) [@leithallb](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/leithallb)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-not-showing-up-when-i-submit-a-photo-observation/72457/3 "2025-11-08T23:46:42Z")

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Thanks for your reply. I think I will put this down to a computer glitch. Today I have re-submitted one of the problem images and the date showed up correctly. I have deleted this re-submitted image because it was a duplicate.

The date on the image that worked is correct. It was taken on the previous day.

Thanks,

Leith

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-not-showing-up-when-i-submit-a-photo-observation/72457/4 "2025-11-10T23:09:08Z")

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