@Solla-topee 

tapo TCB72 has the timing off by one hour.  but only in the camera recordings of the app.  the camera displays the correct time even when the recordings in the app are off.  it will record an event 1 hour in the future.  when the video is displayed the time of the recording is correct on the timestamp on the video.

  @Solla-topee 

im running the latest firmware and auto update is turned on.  All my cameras are connected to an nvr through onvif.  The app is up to date too.  And all my connected devices have the correct time set.  It's only this one camera that shows the wrong time in the recording section of the app.  You can see in the image that the timestamp on the video itself

is the correct time.  While in the app the recording is an hour ahead.  

In case it helps...
I have 2 x Tapo TC41 cams connected to a Jooan NVR via ONVIF.
The time on both TC41's would always be wrong within a few minutes of setting them to the correct time. (didnt matter what method or what timezone was set, they'd always change within a few mins). -They were wrong on the Jooan display and wrong in the Tapo app. 
I have other (non tapo) ONVIF connected cams that show the correct time.

It was fairly clear the NVR was syncing the time on the camera by applying an offset (not by setting a time zone). 
There's no option on the Jooan to 'not sync time' and I want all cams showing the same time anyway. 

    To fix it, I set the timezone on the Tapo cameras (via the Tapo app) to UTC (ie: no timezone offset) 
    - Within 2 minutes the NVR had applied its 'sync' time or offset and the Tapo cams were showing correct time (both on Jooan and on Tapo app). 

Hope it helps.

  @Solla-topee 

Hi,

I've read all the messages and tried the possible solutions but in my case the Tapo C200 cams still have a completely wrong date and time.

What makes the situation even odder is that all the cameras (two C200 and one C210) were working with the right date and time until a couple months ago, I didn't change anything in their configuration nor added anything to the network.

Some more informations about my setup:

- 2x Tapo C200 Hardware Version 3.0 - Firmware 1.4.1 = they have wrong date and time, but not the same across themselves (ie now: correct date and time is 26/07/2025 20:42: the Tapo C210 is correct while a C200 shows 04/01/2025 12:42 and the other one shows 15/12/2024 04:17) -> this makes me feel that is not related to any other device syncing its time
 

- I tried rebooting, changing the UTC, reconnecting to the network without the account, no changes.
 

- btw I use a Pi-hole DNS with rules in place to block the traffic for the ipcams BUT the NTP; Anyway even if I pause the Pi-hole and allow all the traffic for long time or completely change the ipcam dns to use Google, cloudflare, etc., nothing changes. (and remember that the C210 time is correct even with the Pi-hole blocking the traffic).

- no DVR in the network, I only use the app "IP CENTCOM" on the pc to show the rtsp stream. I have a QNAP NAS where was installed the Surveillance app but I removed it since I don't actually use it.

Please help me understanding!

  @Solla-topee 

Thank you for the answer,

I' ve finally found the problem and it didn't depend on the cams but on the router: there were some rules to block completely Internet for some IP addresses and those cams took them...

After disabling those rules the cams acquired immediately the right date and time and also found the new firmware.
 

I didn't noticed the message  "this smart device can only be controlled locally" when opening the app on the phone, this made me understand that it was something specific about the Internet access for those cams.

Thank you!