Observations uploaded via website are missing seconds in the time observed

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@barnabywalters

I’m trying to build a tool which matches iNat observations to their original files based on EXIF data, and the first approach I tried was to match based on time_observed_at.

to be fair, if you’re trying to match by EXIF data, you should be matching by photo-specific (meta)data anyway, not trying to match based on the observation’s time_observed_at value.

as noted in an earlier topic where there was brief discussion about building this kind of tool:

@pisum

observation timestamps often have hour and minutes but lack seconds. the time zones can be unreliable. if multiple photos are attached to a given observation, those photos may not share the same underlying timestamps.

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@barnabywalters

There also doesn’t seem to be an API endpoint for fetching individual photo metadata

you can make a contribution to the iNat codebase to add this, if you really want it.