Hello iNatters, It’s been a while since I’ve been overseas in another time zone, and, in the meantime, iNat has changed the way it does things. I am using the web uploader to upload my trip photos. In the old days, I would change my iNat account time zone to the time zone where I’d been, then the w…

Thanks for the files, Jon. I was able to replicate the problem and there was definitely a bug, but only in cases where the Uploader itself failed to parse the date from the photo for some reason and had to fall back on the server… which was parsing the date correctly, but when it returned it back to…

[image] jon_sullivan: the web uploader must know that the photo was taken in a -10:00 time zone (from the EXIF) Tony said the uploader doesn’t use EXIF time zone data: [image] Automatic time zones? as mentioned above we haven’t used time zone data from cameras and we’ll continue to not us…

In theory your local time settings should not affect the time the uploader uses. That should come from the photo and the coordinates. Can you share the original photo file so we can try to replicate this?

@jon_sullivan Discourse strips metadata from photos, so you’ll have to email it to us at help.

Thanks @kueda and @tiwane . It’s good to hear that you’re puzzled by this too. Perhaps it is something odd with the photo. I just got the camera (a waterproof Nikon W300 that includes an internal GPS). I’ll email through an example photo to help@inaturalist.org .

Not sure if this is related but on my camera (Ricoh K-1) the EXIF tags DateTimeOriginal and DateTimeDigitized can be very different (the “-0800” is presumably added by iNat from their server’s timezone, GMT -8). The first appears to be the date & time on the camera’s clock at capture whilst the seco…

My camera is set to UTC. Somewhere on the website, I said that my timezone is UTC, too. That worked well till 10 April. The observations after my Easter holidays show “CET” both for the time of the observation and the time of upload (uploaded 20 April or later) when I look at the “my observations”…

[image] bernhard_hiller: The observations after my Easter holidays show “CET” both for the time of the observation and the time of upload (uploaded 20 April or later) when I look at the “my observations” page If you’re referring to list view on the Explore page, there’s a known bug with displ…

Phew! That is much better. Thanks! Now, regardless of my computer’s timezone, the Uploader is grabbing the datetime as it is from the photo, and assigning the time zone appropriate for the location. Great! Thanks for looking into this and fixing it so quickly.

Web bulk uploading from another time zone

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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	712	June 4, 2020
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Add time zone chooser to the web uploader Feature Requests web	19	2405	April 19, 2022
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Web bulk uploading from another time zone

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