P: Edit/Sync Photo changes the Capture Time.

Yep, I'm also experiencing the problem on LrC 14.1 on MacOS 15.2. I added a keyword to a couple of hundred photos yesterday, which caused them to all start syncing. Since then, I've noticed that the modified photos all have their capture dates incorrect, by up to 19 days earlier than they should be. One thing that I haven't seen anybody else report is that my syncing never finishes. The number of photos in the sync queue varies between 1 and about 20. It just continuously keeps trying to sync and the queue waxes and wanes forever. I suspect that on each pass, some of the capture dates get changed again.

I found the incorrect dates (before I found this community thread) and started fixing them, then discovered that while I was working on that, the grid view would suddenly re-order itself and some of the photos I had fixed had gone wrong again!

Thanks for submitting the ticket, @Rikk Flohr: Photography Looking forward to a quick response from Adob.

As you can see in the examples, after applying a (red) color label, the photo's 'Date Time Original' was changed from 11:38 to 9:38.

Since the photos are ordered by capture time, it messes up the timeline order and is annoying.

It happens with files from different cameras.

Maybe it's also related to LR Sync which is turned on, or to other edit/flag settings.

Before applying a color label:

After applying a color label:

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I have strange things happening and I think the cause may be LR, which I rarely use. 

• If I manually change the capture time of an image in LRClassic, shortly after I make the change, it will revert to some random time.
• When reviewing and rating images in a folder, something happens where the images get all out of order. So maybe if I'm on image 50 in the folder, I hit '1' to rate this one star and then the order of the images changes such that that image is now 150 and the later images have been moved toward the top.

This just started happening. I am running LrC 14.1 on a Mac, Mac OS 13.7.1.

I've also experienced this "time shift" bug, noticed after installing LRC 14.1, working through photos editing/rating. For me, times shift forward 7 hrs. (fyi, I'm in Pacific Time.). I did have all the photos in a collection being cloud sync'ed.

Now I have to go figure out all the ones that got broken and need fixing 😞

macOS 15.2.

Same here since upgrading to LR Classic. Took me quite some time to understand the bug:

- Only happens on my jpgs, not on my RAW files

- Each cloud sync changes the metadata "original time" by -1 hour 

- Only found out about this bug due to a sync loop / infinite syncing of the most recent files 

- Manuall fixing works (and takes time) but cloud sync needs to stay off now as it again destroys the meta data

- Older files / already synces files (before upgrading) are not affected 

Okay glad to see im not crazy. I had literally the same thing happen and wasted 4 hours trrying to figure out why the photos are all out of order, great timing when client quotes photo numbers of what they want for the album.

Hello! I am having a bit of an issue here that is worth reproting.

I updated to the latest Lr Classic 14.1 a few days ago and just today tried to follow my usual workflow:

1. Import new photos, moving them to a common location sorted by date
2. Add those photos to a new collection synced to Lightroom Cloud

The workflow is super simple and it's worked flawlessly ever since I started using it a few months ago. I have had zero problems with it until now.

This time, for some reason, after adding the photos to the synced collection, Lightroom seems to modify their capture date and time, rendering them all wrong. I was adding photos from a single day, and somehow they ended up getting dates a few days before, on the same day, a few days after and even December 20th, which hasn't even happened yet. Same goes for the capture time, all over the place.

At first I thought it was a glitch since Lightroom did crash when it was generating the standard previews, so I removed them from the library and reimported the originals which I still had on me. The dates seemed to be correct this time around, but they got all messed up again as soon as I added them to a synced collection (I even tried creating a new one).

At this point I figured it was an issue with Lightroom sync so I gave up and decided to no longer add these photos to a new collection (after having reimported them once more), but then I wondered if it was an issue with the latest 14.1 update, since it was not happening before it. I downgraded to 14.0.1, tried synchronising the same photos and now I am not having any issues. Dates and times remain correct.

I would normally continue troubleshooting to see what the exact issue is, but I have no time and it's really painful to reimport the same photos everytime (I need them synced ASAP at the moment). I noticed the following, in case it's useful:

• JPEG and HEIC files, which Lightroom writes to when making edits, are permanently modified with the incorrect dates, so I had to reimport the originals back.
• Propietary RAW files (I used CR3), which Lightroom doesn't write to (at least according to my configuration), aren't modified and thus I was able to reimport the same ones. I write all edits to sidecar XMP files and upon inspecting them manually with a text editor, they seemed to show the correct dates (attributes xmp:ModifyDate and xmp:CreateDate). Still, to err on the side of caution, whenever I reimported them, I made sure to delete the old XMP files, importing just the photos.

Not sure if it's an issue on my side, but I guess you could try to reproduce the issue by just following steps 1 and 2 I detailed earlier.

I am on Windows 11 24H2 (build 26.100.2605).

I have the same problem as well. 
Every time I make an edit in the develope module, or change the photos location in the map module, the timestamp is moved back exactly 1 hour (after the photo has been synced). 

I'm using both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic and syncing every single photo between those apps. However, this issue seem to arise only when I change something in Classic. 

It looks like LrC  14.1 has changed the Date Time Original and Date Created metadata on one of my HEIC images.   The Library>Metadata panel now shows Date Created as 2025-07-30T07:42:33-07:00 and Date Time Original as the same date.   Looking at the image file with exiftool, I see this:

Date Created : 2025:07:30 07:42:33-07:00

Date/Time Original : 2025:07:30 07:42:33

Looking at a Time Machine backup of the image file with exiftool, I see this:

Date Created : 2024:11:23 09:42:33-07:00

Date/Time Original : 2024:11:23 09:42:33

The corruption happened while I was browsing the image folder in LrC, with Sort Order set to Capture Time.  The image changed position in Grid View, probably after I briefly switched to the Develop module to look at the Before/After state of the image.

I tried renaming the file in LrC, then restoring the image from backup as its original filename , and syncing the folder.  The restored file now shows this in exiftool:

Date Created : 2025:08:05 17:42:33-07:00

Date/Time Original : 2025:08:05 17:42:33

i.e. a different wrong date, several months in the future.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

@Admirable_Wizard157F when you unsync a collection it leaves the synced photos in All Synced Photographs, so they're still being synced unless you also go there and remove them manually.