Time contact in LotW & eQSL. Local or UTC?
Posted: Fri 11. Sep 2020, 10:05
I have detected the following:
I make a contact with England at 23:56 local time and send it to eQSL:

I check eQSL and it's in the outbox with the contact time at 23:56 h:

In the eQSL inbox I have the confirmation from the England contact and the contact time is 21:56 h. UTC time:

Therefore, there is a 2 hour difference and when I download data from eQSL I get red:

This situation is continuous and if the number of daily contacts is high, it is a nightmare to edit them in eQSL. I don't want to think about a big contest what would happen ...
Seeing what happens with the eQSL, I have not tried with LotW yet but I think it will happen the same, at least the ADIF files I think RumlogNG generates with local time.
It should be informed of UTC time and not local time, don't you think?
The ADIF specifications that say about the contact time, local or UTC?
I have not read them but the logical thing would be to report the UTC time, right?
Perhaps he is wrong in all this because I wonder that no one has reported it, but logically it should be like that.
Any suggestion?
Thanks Tom.
I make a contact with England at 23:56 local time and send it to eQSL:

I check eQSL and it's in the outbox with the contact time at 23:56 h:

In the eQSL inbox I have the confirmation from the England contact and the contact time is 21:56 h. UTC time:

Therefore, there is a 2 hour difference and when I download data from eQSL I get red:


This situation is continuous and if the number of daily contacts is high, it is a nightmare to edit them in eQSL. I don't want to think about a big contest what would happen ...
Seeing what happens with the eQSL, I have not tried with LotW yet but I think it will happen the same, at least the ADIF files I think RumlogNG generates with local time.
It should be informed of UTC time and not local time, don't you think?
The ADIF specifications that say about the contact time, local or UTC?
I have not read them but the logical thing would be to report the UTC time, right?
Perhaps he is wrong in all this because I wonder that no one has reported it, but logically it should be like that.
Any suggestion?
Thanks Tom.