**Platform: iOS **App version number: 3.2.5 **URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Last observation with correct time/date data: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110121821 First observation with incorrect time/date data: https://www.inaturalist.org/observatio…

It’s a known issue. The app is sending the correct offset now (which was not always happening previously) but somewhere along the way iNat is not always assigning the correctly labeled time zone. Still not great, but better than before, IMO. We’re investigating possible fixes. You can use the batch…

Still occurring as of 14 April 2022—obs was an hour later than listed on iNat page screenshot [Screenshot (6)]

It is now correctly marking the time zone, but it seems I can no longer manually change time zones. So ones I uploaded yesterday with the intent of fixing today, are now stuck as being in Arizona and on MST time zone, rather than the correct Pacific time.

Was this a reply to my 14 April problem just above?

This was a reply to the original post. I’m not sure what [image] lakekoshare: obs was an hour later than listed on iNat page screenshot means. Is the time zone incorrect (as in it was not observed in EDT?) or is the actual time of day (11:54 am) incorrect? [image] chalon9: but it seems …

My obs of Tiger Swallowtail was at 12:54 EDT, not 11:54—it seems to be using EST but labeling it as EDT

That observation was not made via our iOS app - this bug report is for observations made with our iOS app. That bug has now been fixed. When I look at the photo’s page , which is where I assume iNaturalist pulled the date/time for the observation from, I see 11:54 am in the photo’s metadata: [image…

Since this problem has been fixed, I’m going to close the thread.

iOS app giving incorrect time zone

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tiwane April 19, 2022, 8:46pm 4

We just released a fix that should prevent this from happening any more. It’s looking good for observations I’m making, I’m seeing PDT and not MST anymore.

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iOS app giving incorrect time zone

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