Hi all,
I am posting this question because I couldn’t find any previous questions in the forum. It seems the default time zone for me is EST when uploading from my computer. (However when I upload from the app the time zone appears to be correct.) I would have thought it would change the time zone automatically based on either camera information, or the geographical location. A number of my observations come from southern Africa, even my observations from last summer to Arizona, New Mexico, Utah are in EST. As a zoologist with experience in museum collections, I want to make sure that my sightings have correct data and can be of the most use for future researchers.
My question then is:
Is the correct time zone vitally important when analyzing the data?
If so, how do you change the time zone?
Is there a way to batch change a number of observations to the correct time zone?
Go to Account settings from the profile picture menu in the desktop version of iNaturalist to set a time zone. I found that my observations being posted using the Android app were showing as being 17 hours old as soon as I uploaded them. Although my Moto G7 phone was set to Central Daylight Time here in Wisconsin, the desktop account settings were still set to GMT+11 which is where I live and work. I am at GMT-6 for only this summer. The mobile app in Android uses the time set in the desktop version, not the time zone set on the phone.
so funny, I was trying to get rid of the dropdown menu until I realised it was your screen shot :D
but thanks for the helpful reply because I just noticed my observations were coming up HST (Hawaii) and I’m in Australia (151 observations too late)