Platform: website Browser: Chrome, Firefox URLs of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2020-06-07&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&subview=table&user_id=trscavo&verifiable=any Description of problem: In the above listing, the order of observ…

So, they weren’t in different timezones in reality? Do you have a set time zone in your account settings? If not, website chooses quite randomly which one applies to your observations, so setting will save you from that issue.

[image] marina_gorbunova: So, they weren’t in different timezones in reality? Correct. [image] marina_gorbunova: Do you have a set time zone in your account settings? My account is set to the Eastern Time zone but it wasn’t always that way. I didn’t realize there was such a setting wh…

Then you will need to manually change timezones on those observations, I’m not sure if there’s an easy way to filter those out.

Here is another anomaly. Consider the 8th and 12th observations from the ordered list: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48906972 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106606018 Here are the corresponding observed dates from photo metadata: 2020-06-07 13:40:17 -0700 2020-06-07 13:43:1…

For sure it’s timezones, list is going in the order of actual time, no matter which zone, so if one zone has 3p.m. later than the other it will be shown after 3p.m. of the second timezone which happened before.

I hate to say it but this is a bug. It’s impossible to find duplicate observations under these conditions.

[image] trscavo: this is a bug i don’t see a bug here. unless anything changes , i believe that when you upload via the website, [image] Add time zone chooser to the web uploader iNaturalist takes whatever time zone I have chosen as my default (in Account Settings) and applies it to the ti…

[image] pisum: since you changed the time zone in your account settings between the 2 uploads, you got two different time zones applied to your observations. it’s definitely a quirk, but i think this is technically how the system was designed to work. I don’t doubt the system was designed to …

[image] trscavo: the system defaults to some unspecified timezone if there is none specified in the user’s account settings. The system shouldn’t let me create any observations until I’ve specified a default. i think your account should always have a default time zone specified. whether it is…

Maybe it’s so now, but I had both UTC+0 and HST zones on my first observations, and those are zones I see in others’ observations, even new ones I think (rarely people edit the setting and mostly don’t respond to comments about it).

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pisum February 14, 2022, 9:01pm 14

okay. so then whatever bug is described in this thread is already covered by your previous bug report (https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/account-time-zone-sometimes-automatically-sets-itself-to-hawaiian-time/11940), right? (merge?)

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Automatic time zones? General	34	6694	May 8, 2022
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Inconsistency in how web upload screen sets time zone for a manually entered time, depending on where you enter the time Bug Reports web	4	722	June 4, 2020
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