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April 15, 2017

P: Video capture time shifted by time zone offset

  • April 15, 2017
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I recently got a 5D IV and just noticed that capture times on video files shows 5 hours ahead in Lightroom (photos are fine). This causes videos taken late in the day to be imported into the folder for the next day. I'm running the latest Lightroom (6.10) and 5D Firmware (1.04). I checked my old 5D Mark III videos and they are fine. 

I suspect Lightroom ins't picking up the timezone info and is using UTC time.  Is this a bug?

57 replies

Participant
December 25, 2021

I am still experiencing the same bug in Lightroom Classic v11.1 today with .MP4 video files shot yesterday on my Nikon Z5

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 23, 2021

updating status

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
johnrellis
Legend
April 24, 2021

This is caused by a poorly written Quicktime specification, which requires that capture times be recorded in UTC but doesn't provide a standard location for recording time zone.  See here for details why LR interacts badly with this:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-video-capture-time-shifted-by-time-zone-offset/5f5f45b94b561a3d425bf7b3?commentId=5f5f48514b561a3d42184616 

Inspiring
April 23, 2021

The time stamp on my .mov files from my Nikon Z6 ii are being rewritten upon import, I assume to match UTC 0. I have looked in forums and it seems the easiest thing to do is just change my camera's time zone to London. I don't really need help since I don't collaborate across time zones, but I hope this will be addressed in future updates. Metadata of video and photo files are accurate in the camera  and then upon upload, photos retain accurate metadata and videos are converted to London time (from LA time). This means they are not synched up and often in the following day's folder with the major time difference. It also means they are not synched with my other camera files which makes creating a chronological timeline difficult. In my mac's Finder, it seems they are timestamped with the correct metadata (date modified). It is only in Lightroom that this seems to be an issue. 

johnrellis
Legend
November 3, 2020
Inspiring
November 2, 2020
  • When importing photos with LR-classic the capture time is correct, of course. Even the in camera rating of photos is imported into Lightroom Classic.
  • When importing videos with LR-classic the capture time is wrong (- 2 hours)! Furthermore the in camera rating of videos is not imported into Lightroom Classic.
    These simple metadata import problems are reproducible with MP4-videos shot with Nikon Z7. Maybe this is related to specific camera models.

Lightroom Classic Version 10.0

Nikon Z7 Firmware Version 3.12

Inspiring
October 26, 2020

This is incredible: this is a 5 year old bug!! And Adobe does not care!

Participating Frequently
October 2, 2020

That would be great. Let's hope...