are all timestamps on surveys UTC by default?

Your question makes total sense, Des. Let me do some digging and see what the typeform wizards think of this. 

Good luck with that virtual school experience and, above all, be patient!

@Mariana - thanks. I figured as much - it will make a bigger challenge when respondents to surveys are in different timezones and you would like to have their ‘local time of completion/submission’ in the integration to G-sheets, for example. 

is there a way to capture the timestamp from the respondent’s computer in a hidden field and pass that along (that may be a stretch but not sure if that is part of the metadata available to the form/survey)?

thanks

des

@Mariana - understandable and appreciated. and thanks for flagging the dev team. 

cheers

des

This is something that is needed, any updates from developers?

In case you are still looking for a solution, here is small JS snippet that may help you to get the data and pass them to TypeForm in hidden fields using the embed API. Intl.DateTimeFormat() only works in modern browsers, while getTimezoneOffset supports older browsers. I put both in separated try catch to avoid causing errors that could block execution of TypeForm embed API if the browser does not support one of these functions.

var time_zone = ''
var utc_offset = ''
try {
    time_zone = Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone;
} catch (e) {
    time_zone = 'n/a'
}
try {
    utc_offset = -(new Date).getTimezoneOffset()/60;
} catch (e) {
    utc_offset = 'n/a'
}