Yesterday I took a few photos in Salem-Oregon with a Nikon DSLR in jpeg format. I uploaded the images directly as-is. The meta tags should be all intact, including the dates. The uploads did not show up in Salem-Oregon for a day. And then when they did show up, they showed a date of 2023. I had to …

[image] SixthSeason: they showed a date of 2023 is the clock on your camera set correctly? when i look at one of the photo records from one of your observations, it seems to show that iNat saw the date on the photo was from 2023: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/464867448 . [image] Sixth…

@pisum I am looking into the camera features right now. Turns out there is a second internal rechargeable battery that uses the main battery to stay healthy. And it is the one that retains time settings. I suspect that second battery has a problem because I had verified the correct date/time multip…

you didn’t provide the exact URL as requested. if you want, you can provide a screenshot of your screen that includes the URL. also, it would be helpful to point out a specific observation that you think is missing from the results.

[image] SixthSeason: So where will all those other observations I posted last few days show up? They were posted this week but date-taken was in the past. I presume nobody who visits the Observations-Salem page will see them? By default, the Explore page lists observations based on date the o…

[image] twainwright: Another hint about places in the explore page: entering a location in the top bar will often just give you a location generated by Google Maps, in the case of Salem, OR a larger rectangle around the city. More info on this here: https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/sol…

I just posted 6 new observations and took notes of the dates. I will see if/when/how they will be shown at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations with the default location set to “City of Salem, Oregon, USA”. The 6 photos date ranging from today to 7 months back. They show up on my profile’s obser…

when you don’t post exact URLs or sceenshots, you’re sort of forcing others to guess what you’re looking at. even though you’re describing a process, there are varous ways each of those steps you talked about could be executed. so it’s a little ambiguous what you’re doing just based on your text. b…

How to post observations with accurate dates

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How to post observations with accurate dates

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