P: iPhone video Capture Time is shifted upon Import

Lol quite the timing to complain about this 😄

That's not just someone. That's the boss. 🙂

Hooray! Three years after I started this thread, someone on the Lightroom team has acknowledged it and said they're on it. I'll believe it when I see it, but I'm hopeful.

@LR_Tom: @3665492__19 Per your Lr time stamp bug. Yes, we do care, I’m tracking a bug filed against the shared component we use to parse date/times. (https://twitter.com/LR_Tom/status/806...)

Please fix this already! Super annoying.

Interestingly, LR mobile on the iPhone recognizes the correct timestamp when I import the video into LR mobile. Only LR CC on my mac shows an incorrect timestamp. Would be nice if LR mobile would sync the correct timestamp to LR CC on the Mac... (or LR CC on the Mac would have the same algorithm to evaluate the timestamp)

Thanks John. That makes sense to me.

I just tried the PSE 14 Organizer with a couple of sample MP4s.  It appears to be using the file's date modified, not any metadata in the file.   That approach works much of the time, since the camera/phone will usually set the file's date modified to the camera's clock (cameras and phones that understand time zones will set it to local time).

The problem with using file date modified and file date created is that too many applications, utilities, and cloud services don't preserve them as the file is copied and moved.  Long-time Mac users have relied on the tradition of Mac apps preserving those dates, but these days there are many Mac apps and utilities that don't (including from Apple, and most especially including LR).

But using file date modified is often better than file date created, especially on Windows, where the convention on Windows is that the file date created represents when that specific copy of the file was created, not when the original was created.  (I.e. making a copy of a file sets the copy's date created to "now".)

The whole point of photo and video metadata is to preserve important information inside the file in a documented way that all applications respect. But with respect to capture date, the industry has collectively screwed it up.

I am having the same problem with LR5.7.1 when importing MP4 from a Nexus 5 phone (Android 6.01.

"PSE seems to work while LR does not for creation dates of movies. If tat is true then why?"

That's a good question.  I'll look into it.