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

Hey @john.desborough.

I am afraid that this isn't currently customizable. The only way to do this is to get the user to provide their timezone or location and manually work it out. 

As we have an international client base who also has international users we opted for standardization in the interests of removing complexity. I will flag your feedback to the developers though. 

Sorry I haven’t been able to help more in this case but I hope you’ll understand.

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

cheers

des

Great Question - I work out of India and response submitted are in a different timezone. Is there a way to edit this to suit the response submitted time to match the local timing?!

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

We´d love to have this option here in Brazil as well.

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'
}