# Large number of app users with Date Observed missing

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498 "2020-04-15T15:36:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![peakaytea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/peakaytea/32/6160_2.png) [@peakaytea](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/peakaytea)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/22 "2020-04-28T20:31:07Z")

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Ummm…I was not posting for my own reference, but because I thought there was some interest in on the part of the IT group to follow up with users. I’m sorry, but I don’t have the time or expertise to do so. If there’s nobody with the bandwidth and expertise to do that, then this is the last I’ll post. I certainly can’t collect screenshots from another user’s account!

This user tried to fix the date, but was unable to do so.

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42295437#activity\_comment\_4465664](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42295437#activity_comment_4465664)

Goodbye and good luck with this.

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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/23 "2020-04-29T02:31:22Z")

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not sure if this helps with the problem(s) in this thread, but i noticed something while trying to reproduce the problems here, and i didn’t expect it. so i wanted to note it here, just in case it is not a known thing.

earlier i noted that some of the photos that seemed to be coming in with no metadata seemed to be cropped photos:

> [@pisum](#):
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> problems with the metadata in the loaded photo (as noted by kueda, and also present in a couple of other examples noted in the thread. the seem to be cropped photos.)

so i wanted to see if cropping / editing the photos was somehow stripping the metadata. (i was using the stock Google Photos app on my Pixel 3a to edit photos.) long story short, i realized that if i use the iNaturalist app to take a photo, the resulting photo is different from the photos i take in my stock Google Camera app. the iNat app photos are named something like “20200428\_1855517661492482631352002”, while the stock app photos are named something like “IMG\_20200427\_142334”. but more significantly, when i copy the photos onto my Windows machine to look at the photo metadata, i notice that the iNat app photos have only a Date Created and Date Modified, while the stock app photos have a full set of metadata captured, including a Date Taken. i wasn’t expecting a difference in the metadata stored by photos taken in the iNat app.

it _seems_ like when the Date Taken is missing, the iNat app may be using the Date Modified as a proxy for Date Taken. this is problematic because when i crop and save a copy of a photo taken in the iNat app, it’s the date that i made the edited copy that seems to be getting loaded as the Observed Date, not the actual date the photo was taken. (oddly, Google seems to know when the edited copy was taken because i can see it in the photo details in the Photos app, but it doesn’t seem to share that information, such as when i copy the photo to Windows and view the photo attributes.) for comparison, if i load an edited copy of a stock camera app photo, the resulting observation will show an Observed Date matching the date the photo was taken…

that’s as far as i’ve gotten with this at this point, and i’m not sure if it’ll actually lead anywhere relevant to this topic…

i thought maybe if changed the date / time on my phone when editing the iNat app photo, that somehow that might affect what gets loaded. when i shifted my phone’s system date a day forward, the resulting edited copy of the photo reflected a Date Modified that was a day ahead, and when i tried to load an observation using that photo, it simply would not load/sync. (the iNat app didn’t give me any errors though.) if i moved the system date a few hours forward but still on the same date, the resulting edited copy would load okay and reflect the future time. i thought maybe if i first loaded a blank observation and then later tried to load a future dated photo, that maybe that could confuse things, but actually in that case, the app does throw up an error message letting me know that i’m not allowed to submit an observation with an observation date after the submit date…

> [@peakaytea](#):
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> Goodbye and good luck with this.

@peakaytea – i hope you’ll still participate in the forum and on iNaturalist even if you choose not to post further to this thread. i do appreciate your effort in trying to chase this down, and i think others do, too. if in the future you do notice a very recently uploaded observation that is missing observed date and feel so inclined, you could try asking the user to send a screenshot of what they see (and maybe even a log file) to the iNat staff ([help@inaturalist.org](mailto:help@inaturalist.org)).

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**Author:** ![peakaytea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/peakaytea/32/6160_2.png) [@peakaytea](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/peakaytea)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/24 "2020-05-04T00:57:59Z")

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Sure, I’m not going anywhere. I just don’t know how I can be useful in nailing down this problem, or if it’s a priority.

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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:** [May 4, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/25 "2020-05-04T02:53:53Z")

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I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear earlier, but please refer any of these users to [help@inaturalist.org](mailto:help@inaturalist.org) so we can discuss with them what information we’ll need to track this down. We really need screenshots of their upload process, log files, etc.

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**Author:** ![optilete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/optilete/32/1908_2.png) [@optilete](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/optilete)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/26 "2020-05-06T09:07:44Z")

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> [@kueda](#):
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> I suspect this is just due to people importing photos that have no usable date metadata, and people aren’t choosing one.

I cannot retry it cause I have thrown away the photos but my experience is then when you retry a few times the location data and the date data are correctly imported into the Android app.

I use the symbol in the circle right below. ( Only look at this circle) .

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**Author:** ![arvel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/arvel/32/4574_2.png) [@arvel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/arvel)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/27 "2020-06-27T20:16:33Z")

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OK I have an interesting one here. My friend in Newfoundland (not too far from Ontario) is having some variation of this issue.

She has about 19 casual grade observations due to the date being blank in the app, even though it is present in the JSON via “observed\_on\_string”.

All of the observations made in 2020 in this list: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place\_id=any&subview=table&user\_id=sarahkristine&verifiable=false](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&user_id=sarahkristine&verifiable=false)

Here is an example: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50476010](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50476010)

If you look at the JSON there is an accurate “observed\_on\_string” and the time zone is wrong in the “time\_zone” and “zic\_time\_zone” fields:

 ![Screenshot 2020-06-27 13.06.13](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/d/d3c97bd558d60cc92c1509e9333b8e42f31430da.png)

Her images have Newfoundland Daylight Time in the “observed\_on\_string”: GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30)

But the “time\_zone” and “zic\_time\_zone” say a “Hawaii” / “Pacific/Honolulu”

The location data on the observations is accurate.

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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/28 "2020-06-29T15:37:40Z")

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> [@arvel](#):
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> OK I have an interesting one here. My friend in Newfoundland (not too far from Ontario) is having some variation of this issue.

i think these are probably different than the cases from the original post, but they are still interesting. i suspect that these cases are related to:

1. bad time zone set up (see [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/account-time-zone-sometimes-automatically-sets-itself-to-hawaiian-time/11940](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/account-time-zone-sometimes-automatically-sets-itself-to-hawaiian-time/11940))
2. unresolved issues from or similar to [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-observations-not-showing-time-in-the-timestamp/1250](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-observations-not-showing-time-in-the-timestamp/1250)
3. and the rule that requires observed date \<= current date, related to [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-submitted-before-date-observed/3120](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-submitted-before-date-observed/3120)

if either 1 or 2 above were resolved, i think that would prevent the problem from occurring. so the quickest / easiest thing for that specific user to do would be to fix her time zone, i think.

more details:

it looks like most, if not all, of her observations are made on the iPhone app. it looks like her time zone is probably incorrectly set to Hawaiian time (see [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/account-time-zone-sometimes-automatically-sets-itself-to-hawaiian-time/11940](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/account-time-zone-sometimes-automatically-sets-itself-to-hawaiian-time/11940)).

consider that HST is -10:00 vs UTC/GMT, and then compare her observations that are casual vs not: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place\_id=any&subview=table&user\_id=sarahkristine&verifiable=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&user_id=sarahkristine&verifiable=any). it looks to me like observations that are created at 10AM HST or later are generally casual, while most created prior to 10AM HST are generally ok (though time still doesn’t show up on most of the observation dates, similar to [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-observations-not-showing-time-in-the-timestamp/1250](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-observations-not-showing-time-in-the-timestamp/1250)). it looks like there are exceptions when the time falls between 12PM and 1PM HST (similar to [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-observations-not-showing-time-in-the-timestamp/1250/11](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-observations-not-showing-time-in-the-timestamp/1250/11)).

so then let’s work through a couple of these examples to see what _might be_ happening in more detail. note that regardless of what time zone / offset is recorded by the camera, the system will assume the time zone in the user profile (see [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automatic-time-zones/7760](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automatic-time-zones/7760)) when loading.

for [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50990967](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50990967) (research grade), you have:

1. iNat determined (current) date: “created\_at”: “2020-06-26T05:05:33-10:00”,
2. camera timestamp: “observed\_on\_string”: “Thu Jun 25 2020 19:19:23 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30)”,
3. camera date converted by iNat to HST: “observed\_on”: “2020-06-25”,

think specifically of the conversion of #2 to #3. since iNat simply ignores the camera’s time zone/offset in favor of the time zone in the user profile, it’s assuming 6/25 19:19 HST as the date observed. note that if you convert that to UTC (add 10 hours), you get 6/26 5:19 AM UTC. (then if you ignore the time zone offset in #1 and compare, you get the same day but a later time.)

for [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50476431](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50476431) (casual), you have:

1. iNat determined (current) date: “created\_at”: “2020-06-21T11:46:27-10:00”,
2. camera timestamp: “observed\_on\_string”: “Sun Jun 21 2020 16:04:42 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30)”,
3. camera date converted by iNat to HST: “observed\_on”: null,

again thinking of the conversion of #2 to #3, iNat would have assumed a date of 6/21 16:04 HST, which converted to UTC is 6/22 6:04 AM. (if you ignore the time zone offset in #1 and compare, you get a later day.)

there’s a rule that is supposed to make sure the observed date doesn’t happen after the submit date (see [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-submitted-before-date-observed/3120](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/date-submitted-before-date-observed/3120)). so i bet some sort of weird comparison like what i did above is occurring, causing the system to think that the rule has been violated, and leading it to drop the date in those instances…

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**Author:** ![arvel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/arvel/32/4574_2.png) [@arvel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/arvel)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/29 "2020-06-30T21:33:02Z")

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Thanks for the detailed and informative response. I will share with the user. Is the best way to fix her observations to resubmit them or will she be able to re-sync with her images after correcting her timezone?

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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/30 "2020-07-01T01:12:47Z")

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> [@arvel](#):
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> Is the best way to fix her observations to resubmit them or will she be able to re-sync with her images after correcting her timezone?

i think if i had this issue, i would correct the time zone, compile a list of problem observations with the expected dates (see below) and then use bulk edit (have her click edit on this page: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/sarahkristine?utf8=✓&quality\_grade=casual](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/sarahkristine?utf8=%E2%9C%93&quality_grade=casual)) to fix the existing observations without dates. (instead of bulk edit, she could also try to correct the observations one by one, since there are just under 20.)

here’s a list of the missing dates:

| location | taxon name | obs id | missing date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bowring Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Agrocybe | 50476431 | Sun Jun 21 2020 16:04:42 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Bowring Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Leptophlebiidae | 50476368 | Sun Jun 21 2020 16:38:27 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Bowring Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Myosotis scorpioides | 50476166 | Sun Jun 21 2020 17:11:36 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Bowring Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Arianta arbustorum | 50476111 | Sun Jun 21 2020 17:19:37 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Bowring Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Bonasa umbellus | 50476010 | Sun Jun 21 2020 17:56:32 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Pippy Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Rickenella fibula | 48702249 | Sat Jun 06 2020 17:12:46 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, CA | Apiosporina morbosa | 48701394 | Sat Jun 06 2020 17:29:32 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Pippy Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Sphagnum | 48700987 | Sat Jun 06 2020 16:25:34 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Pippy Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Coptis trifolia | 48700827 | Sat Jun 06 2020 16:19:17 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Pippy Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Cornus canadensis | 48700447 | Sat Jun 06 2020 16:14:24 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Left Pond, St. John’s, NL, CA | Lonicera villosa | 48700261 | Sat Jun 06 2020 16:13:46 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Pippy Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Polytrichum juniperinum | 48700157 | Sat Jun 06 2020 16:04:24 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Pippy Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Cypripedium acaule | 48700057 | Sat Jun 06 2020 15:53:49 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Pippy Park, St. John’s, NL, CA | Nolanea | 48700004 | Sat Jun 06 2020 16:14:49 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, CA | Clintonia borealis | 48699760 | Sat Jun 06 2020 15:44:45 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Newfoundland, Torbay, NL, CA | Cardamine pratensis | 48399391 | Wed Jun 03 2020 18:36:23 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Newfoundland, Flatrock, NL, CA | Alnus | 47770001 | Fri May 29 2020 17:05:26 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Newfoundland, Flatrock, NL, CA | | 47769933 | Fri May 29 2020 16:45:10 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |
| Newfoundland, Torbay, NL, CA | Aphodius | 47127809 | Sun May 24 2020 13:13:34 GMT-0230 (GMT-2:30) |

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**Author:** ![arvel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/arvel/32/4574_2.png) [@arvel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/arvel)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/31 "2020-07-11T20:49:47Z")

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Problem solved by updating time zone. Thank you!

I have a question about this behavior:

Should users switch the time zone under their account settings when traveling or uploading observations from a trip to a different time zone?

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**Author:** ![teellbee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/teellbee/32/15498_2.png) [@teellbee](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/teellbee)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/32 "2020-07-12T00:36:39Z")

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I know I upload from IOS photos and it is often missing date and location, which then I input manually, using the data shown on my iPhone Photos app.

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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/33 "2020-07-12T02:01:30Z")

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> [@arvel](#):
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> Should users switch the time zone under their account settings when traveling or uploading observations from a trip to a different time zone?

i think it depends on whether you’ve changed the time on your device. if, say, your camera still reflects your home time zone, then i would upload those photos using your home time zone. but if, say, your phone automatically changed its time zone to your destination time zone, then i would change time zone in iNaturalist before loading those photos.

you can also look at this thread that i referenced earlier: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automatic-time-zones/7760](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automatic-time-zones/7760). it contemplates a system change to address the need to change time zones in your profile settings, but no changes to the system have been made at this point.

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**Author:** ![kueda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kueda/32/20_2.png) [@kueda](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kueda)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/34 "2020-07-13T20:19:12Z")

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I use the share button in the Google Photos app all the time and have never seen a missing date. Missing locations can happen when the photo you’re sharing isn’t actually stored on your device and must be downloaded from Google before sharing with the iNat app on your phone. For some reason Google Photos doesn’t share location metadata in that situation, and you have to download the file to your device before sharing for iNat to get the coordinates. However, I’ve never seen that issue affecting dates before.

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**Author:** ![carrieseltzer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/carrieseltzer/32/38544_2.png) [@carrieseltzer](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/carrieseltzer)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/35 "2020-07-13T20:50:33Z")

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@kueda did you rule out the possibility of the “[Adelaide issue](https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/search?q=adelaide&type=Commits)” in the case from [arvel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/27)? Newfoundland also has a 30 min offset.

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**Author:** ![kueda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kueda/32/20_2.png) [@kueda](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kueda)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/37 "2020-07-14T00:32:32Z")

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Hadn’t thought of that and it might be affecting people in Newfoundland, but the obs cited in the original post don’t seem to be from Newfoundland or by people with a Newfoundland timezone.

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**Author:** ![optilete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/optilete/32/1908_2.png) [@optilete](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/optilete)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/38 "2020-08-20T10:29:09Z")

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No date in observation  
Android app  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/)

Also no uploading to server anymore…

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**Author:** ![kitty12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kitty12/32/1371_2.png) [@kitty12](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kitty12)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/39 "2020-08-22T01:05:10Z")

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This is very good reasoning, but the times for Newfoundland are all off by half an hour. Newfoundland time is half an hour behind Atlantic time, because why not?

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**Author:** ![rhondaridley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/rhondaridley/32/12742_2.png) [@rhondaridley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/rhondaridley)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/40 "2020-09-28T20:30:08Z")

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Hi

I have what I think is the same missing date problem, I’m wondering if it happens when I don’t wait for the record to upload properly? Occasionally I get comments that I have no date on a record - which is strange as I use the same camera, same app settings etc yet some have dates and some don’t. It happened again yesterday I uploaded about 20 records from my phone via the Android app, maybe 12 had the date and 7 or 8 didn’t. I can’t recreate this at the moment because of course my observation is uploading instantly but I seem to recall a lot of spinning green circles yesterday.

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**Author:** ![carrieseltzer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/carrieseltzer/32/38544_2.png) [@carrieseltzer](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/carrieseltzer)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/41 "2020-09-28T21:15:23Z")

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Can you please send a log file? To send log files, go to the About tab in the app (or Settings tab for older versions) and tap three times on the version number. You will then have the option to email the log files to us. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![carnifex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/carnifex/32/62_2.png) [@carnifex](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/carnifex)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-number-of-app-users-with-date-observed-missing/11498/42 "2020-11-10T19:13:39Z")

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@kueda Here I notified the user that the observation date is missing:  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57208646#activity\_comment\_5799533](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57208646#activity_comment_5799533)

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The user now reports to have it added and to be able to see it as well (8.Aug.2020), however it is still missing from the website. Maybe an interesting case to look into?  
I also noticed that the recent android update dealt with an import error for dates, so could this be correlated?

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