Jean,
I recently uploaded two test photos from my Iphone. The metadata
captured by Groups.io shows that the photos were taken at 2:42 p.m.;
and posted at 11:45 a.m. (clearly impossible). They were actually
taken at 11:42 a.m. and they were posted at 11:45 a.m. Eastern
Daylight time.
As Duane said the three-hour shift does suggest a mistake in Groups.io's handling of the date/time metadata in your photos (the "taken" time). As if the EXIF time was presumed to be Pacific, and needed adjustment for display in Eastern.
The time zone on my group in Groups.io set to Eastern time.
The what now?
Groups don't have a time zone.
You can set the display time zone on a group's calendar page, but I'm pretty sure that controls only the calendar display.
Each member of a group has a time zone in their account preferences. I believe that is supposed to control the display of date/time on all other pages.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening and what could
be done to correct it?
Probably only Groups.io can fix it.
Perhaps the EXIF data Groups.io uses doesn't include the UTC time offset, leading to a need to "guess". But even if that's the case, the local time of the person doing the upload would be a better guess than Pacific.
Shal
Shal Farley