P: XMP:MetadataDate has wrong time zone

To the best of my knowledge, EXIF timestamps never contain timezone info. I'm not positive that's true, I'm basing that statement on the Metadata Working Group spec which says, "Exif date/time values such as DateTimeOriginal do not contain time zone information."

Regardless, the EXIF timestamp in the file I used in my test had no timezone.

-Ben

Ben, perhaps start with an EXIF timestamp that has no timezone? (I'm just guessing, I haven't tried it.)

Hi John,

Could you provide some information regarding specifically what your steps are in Lightroom? In the simple case at least, I don't see this problem. Here's what I'm doing:

1. Verify that my system timezone is set to PDT (UTC -7:00).
2. Import a JPEG into Lightroom. The DateTimeOriginal (Exif tag #36867) is "2011:05:09 09:07:35?00?"
3. Select the imported JPEG in the Library in Lightroom and choose Metadata>Save Metadata to File.
4. Examine the metadata in the file using a tool such as Exiftool.

Result: xmp:MetadataDate = "2011-05-13T16:48:40-07:00" This is what I would expect. Perhaps there are other operations that are necessary in order to make the bug manifest?

Thanks,
Ben