My time zone is set to Pacific (US+Can) in my account settings. When submitting an observation from my iphone, the Obs-time shows Mountain Zone but the Submit-time shows the correct Pacific zone. When I submit photos from my laptop, both my obs-time and my submit-time are correctly showing Pacific…

hmmm… can you clarify your problem? the observation you linked to is in Yukon, which apparently uses UTC-7 (or MST) as its timezone and does not adjust for daylight savings time. so that observation seems like it has the right time zone. are you saying the recorded time is wrong here?

I had to manually fix it. I’ve had to fix dozens of submissions. It’s the different algorithm behaviour between computer and iphone that is the problem.

it’s still not clear to me based on your description what exactly the problem is. if the problem is now fixed, do you have a screenshot or anything to show what it looked like when the problem existed? it would be helpful to see exactly what you think is right vs what you think is wrong, to be able…

There’s no useful screen shot. Simply put, when the time changed last season, my entries done via computer (for camera photos) showed correct time, while entries on via the app from the same outing (cell phone pics) were in one time zone over, so one hour off, even though the settings were the corre…

i still don’t know how to help because i still don’t understand exactly what your problem is. you’ve referenced an observation where you said a problem existed, but then you said you have already fixed the problem – so looking at the observation doesn’t help to elucidate what the problem was. you s…

Time zone problem

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bouteloua Closed March 11, 2023, 4:54pm 7

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