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September 10, 2025
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Acrobat PDF Program Changes Date on Document

  • September 10, 2025
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When I convert documents to PDF after 5pm the program automatically changes the date to the next day. My date and time is correct on my computer, so not sure why this is happening. I need to remember to go in and manually change it after it is a PDF, which is a pain. Any ideas on what is causing this? 

Correct answer creative explorer

@Enchanted_Skyline2201 Sounds like you are saving to the cloud. The easiest way is to save to you local hard drive. Then make a copy of the PDF to the cloud, you will likely avoid this specific problem! 

When you save a file to the cloud, the file's metadata, including the creation date and time, is often stamped by the cloud server. If your local time zone and the cloud server's time zone are different, and your conversion happens during a time that is "the next day" on the server (e.g., after 5:00 PM local time but after midnight on the server), the PDF will be stamped with the new date.

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September 11, 2025

@Enchanted_Skyline2201 Sounds like you are saving to the cloud. The easiest way is to save to you local hard drive. Then make a copy of the PDF to the cloud, you will likely avoid this specific problem! 

When you save a file to the cloud, the file's metadata, including the creation date and time, is often stamped by the cloud server. If your local time zone and the cloud server's time zone are different, and your conversion happens during a time that is "the next day" on the server (e.g., after 5:00 PM local time but after midnight on the server), the PDF will be stamped with the new date.

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