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UTC Date for Configuration App

I was recently using a presaved config file with the app and noticed that the UTC start date listed had a day added to it in a circumstance where I wouldn't expect it. My recording is scheduled to start UTC-7 at March 1, 2024 at and run from 2:45 to 7:45. That time period in UTC doesn't fall on March 3, 2024, but when I switch the display to UTC that's start date displayed, and the end date also had a day added in UTC. Maybe I'm missing something regarding UTC conversion or how the app works, but I'm a bit confused by this behavior. See screenshots below.

To add to the confusion I think the App displayed what I would expect when I used the same file earlier in the day, start and end on March 1 and May 15 in UTC and UTC-7. I'll have to check it again tomorrow to make sure I wasn't dreaming, but I wonder if a day gets added when the UTC zone goes to the next day during the time I'm using the app. For instance it was Nov 2 in UTC-7 and Nov 2 in UTC earlier today, but this evening it was Nov 2 here and Nov 3 in UTC. Just a hunch.

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3 Comments

Alex Rogers

Nov 03, 2023

Hi Jerry,

Can you post the .config file and confirm which version of the Config App you are using? The dates shown here should not be changing at all as the time zone changes so I'm not sure how this happened. Alex

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Alex Rogers

Nov 03, 2023

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Hi Jerry, Actually, we've figured this out. The dates are changing due to the local time on the machine rather than the schedule. This is confusing and was not what was intended. The intention was that these dates would be fixed and would not change with the time zone. When you configure, if the display is showing UTC-7, the first recording period will be 1st March 00:00:00 (UTC-7), and if the display is showing UTC when you configure the AudioMoth, the first recording period will be 1st March 00:00:00 (UTC). We have an update coming in a few days that introduces the ability to set any time zone (rather than just UTC and the local one) so we'll fix this in that update.

Alex

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Jerry Cole

Nov 03, 2023

Replying to

Excellent! Thanks for the quick response. I was just scratching my head about this one. Glad that it is something that is now known and will be resolved.