In my professional life I have done a lot of database work. Date/time issues, especially with multiple users across many time zones, are always a concern. However, not having a fix for this is causing me real headaches. Why?
The problem is magnified when you mix and match devices which are creating and submitting field notes. When caching I often end up using both my iPhone with the official geocaching.com app and my Garmin Oregon 550t. For example, the other day (11/11/11). I cached a good par of the day, from 8am until nearly midnight. I covered such a large area that at various times during the day I ended up in some places where I didn't have cache data loaded into my Oregon. No problem - pull out the iPhone, search, find & log field note from the phone. When I get home I have some caches already logged into field notes from the iPhone app and then I upload the rest of my finds from the file on my Oregon. What a mess! The finds from the iPhone and the finds from the Oregon are all intermixed instead of in the order I found them because of this time shift. Now it might just be me being picky, but I do like to try to log my cache finds in the order that I actually found them and on the right day. And, it would be nice not to have to doctor up the Garmin file before I upload it.
If we can't get this fixed in the iPhone app side, maybe something else could be done to allow us to time shift field notes that are already uploaded. Or, as a last resort, maybe a "Download Field Notes" feature would allow me to pull all the data into a program like GSAK so that I could fixup the dates.
