P: Wrong folder names organizing by date when using camera USB

I wondered why all these great photographers use Lightroom but never complain about this longstanding bug as they travel the world. Then I realized that it was a Windows only bug and they all use Macs..

Well it's Oct. 2013, more than 2 years since this thread was posted (2011-07-21) and in my LR4.4 and LR5 above comment, this issue has still not been resolved.
Please don't tell me to add another step to my workflow, (Use a card reader), work out the issue and fix it.

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It still fails with Lightroom 5 when in the ICT (UTC+7) time zone and pictures are taken in the evening.

You can still import straight from your iPhone, just don't rename them during the import. Instead, rename them once the import has finished via Library > Rename photo.

I can confirm that with LR4.3 this issue still occurs. My workaround is that I still import the photos straight from the camera, but without renaming them during the import. Once import is finished, I rename them via Library > Rename photo. UTC is disregarded, as it should and time shows up correctly.

I have seen quite few anomalies in LR4.3 and LR4.x with how time stamps are used. I live in Australia - this is important because the bugs are around time zone adjustment (I think)

Here is one specific problem: I have a Nikon D90, I attached the camera to my computer and select import using LR4.3. The photo to be imported is taken at (Time stamp on camera) 31 Jan 2013, 18:26:45. My camera is set to GMT +11 hrs which is the summer time for the area I'm in (ie the 11 hrs includes daylight saving). When the thumb nail is shown before I hit the import button , if I mouse over the thumbnail, the time is shown as 1 Feb 2013 05:26:46. So 11 hrs and 1 sec more. LR also tells me it will put the import into the 2013/2 folder which it needed to create (todate I only have 2013/1 folders) Then I import using LR to rename the filename using the date time. It does this using the correct date time ie 20130131_18-26-45 but puts the import into the 2013/2 folder.

The 11hrs and 1 sec suggests (ie the extra second suggests) it's getting a timestamp from somewhere else and then adding the GMT adjustment. All time fields in the metadata shown in LR4 are all 18:26:45.

BTW - other problems I have are the otherway around where LR4 is using GMT as my local time - to fix some of these i can go into Edit capture time (don't touch/change anything) which shows the correct time (ie GMT+11) and execute. It appears that LR4 is picking up different timestamps in different bits of code

At the risk of reiterating what's already been stated above: consider getting and using a card reader for the interim.

It may take Adobe a while to fix this ;-}

Cheers,
Rob

At the risk of stating the obvious: consider getting and using a card reader for the interim.

It may take Adobe a while to fix this ;-}

Cheers,
Rob

Also experience this bug with LR 4.3 and a Nikon D7000 connected via USB. (Currently don't own a Card Reader)
Camera and computer are configured to Australian time zone.

Just posting because I would like to keep an eye on this thread.

Hi Jeffrey,

As mentioned in the comments above, you can work around this issue by importing from a card reader, or the hard drive, rather than from the camera directly.

Thanks,
Ben