# False observation age **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [September 23, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605 "2020-09-23T17:49:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ppinat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ppinat/32/6666_2.png) [@ppinat](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ppinat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/1 "2020-09-23T17:49:15Z")
My observation [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60465596](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60465596) which was taken in 2015 gets in some aspects an observation age of “15 J” that means 15 years. When I change the language from German to English it gets correct “5 Y”. ---
**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/2 "2020-09-23T17:53:26Z")
Can you provide some more details please? Is this on the website or the app? Where exactly are you seeing 15 J? Can you provide screenshots or URLs? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ppinat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ppinat/32/6666_2.png) [@ppinat](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ppinat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/3 "2020-09-23T18:06:04Z")
I go the inat homepage and click on “Beobachtungen”. It is the first observation, added today. ---
**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/4 "2020-09-23T18:43:22Z")
This is what I see: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/f/fe6562ee6714b50cac86f4b13670bacd89a83814.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ppinat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ppinat/32/6666_2.png) [@ppinat](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ppinat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/5 "2020-09-23T20:14:01Z")
Maybe you have to choose Raster instead of Karte. ---
**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/6 "2020-09-23T20:55:10Z")
Still not seeing 15 J: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/4/4333a6a08c6a45e0e897c4081eeb317edc5d18c1.jpeg) If you could please give exact steps to reproduce, that would help a lot. ---
**Author:** ![ppinat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ppinat/32/6666_2.png) [@ppinat](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ppinat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/8 "2020-09-23T21:58:55Z")
The steps to reproduce are exact now. I have made some investigations. It seems to be a browser issue. I am using Firefox 78.2.Oesr (and cannot go to newer version) for openSUSE 15.1. There I get 15 J. If I use Google Chrome 85.0.4183.121 under the same operating system or Firefox 81.0 or Google Chrome 85.0.4183.102 under Windows 7 then I get the correct value 5 J. Most astonishing is the fact that 15 J changes to 5 Y when changing the language from German to English. ---
**Author:** ![marina\_gorbunova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/marina_gorbunova/32/31454_2.png) [@marina\_gorbunova](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/marina_gorbunova)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/9 "2020-09-23T22:22:41Z")
Can you post a screenshot? Are you sure that 1 is not from another part of caption, in Russian because there’s not enough space I don’t even see when it was taken. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/4/49f2b485a7216da7c41038f59723e8f49a038e95.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ppinat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ppinat/32/6666_2.png) [@ppinat](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ppinat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/10 "2020-09-23T22:46:23Z")
Ok, there is no real bug. Many thanks to melodi\_96. There is not enough space for the caption. It is, for example, sufficient to reduce the font size of the browser to see the correct value. If my observation had 2 comments instead of only 1 I would have read 25 J. ---
**Author:** ![marina\_gorbunova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/marina_gorbunova/32/31454_2.png) [@marina\_gorbunova](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/marina_gorbunova)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/11 "2020-09-23T22:49:44Z")
Looks like it is a common problem for multiple languages, I also had a bug report of something that was shown as 11y. old for me and not 1. 😅 ---
**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/false-observation-age/16605/12 "2020-09-28T14:35:52Z")