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robcameron
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Trouble with setting time zone

My time zone is not showing correctly. If I load a file it registers as having it done it 11 hours in the past? Any help would be appreciated so I can accurately track activity in my files.
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robcameron
New member | Level 2

I should have mentioned I have tried to adjust my time settings on several occasions. The timezone appears to be correct but the actual times displayed against each file are not representative of the times I have saved them.

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Mark
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8 years ago
That means something on the device itself is logging the wrong time on to the files, so, the phone may have a setting set on it which logs at a different time zone to what you are in (e.g. Apple's own 'use local setting' etc.).

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