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November 15, 2023
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How to change Capture Time by +4.5 hours (India)

  • November 15, 2023
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Unfortunately, I did not change the time zone on my camera when in India which as a +4.5 offset with UK BST (or +5.5 with UT / GMT). Lightroom only seems to allow for whole hour changes. I need to change 1015 images out of ~6500 (I remembered a couple of days in). Is this possible within Lightroom or do we have to use some third party solution (which would be a pity since you can do whole hours easily in Lightroom already)?

 

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Correct answer johnrellis

Yeah, too many developers don't realize that a billion people live in a time zone whose offset is not a whole number of hours! But it's easy to change the times on your photos:

 

1. Select all the photos needing changing.

 

2. Do Metadata > Edit Capture Time.

 

3. Select Adjust To A Specified Date And Time.

 

4. Add 4.5 hours to the Corrected Time.

 

5. Click Change All.

 

This SHIFTS the times of all the selected photos by 4.5 hours (read the caption at the top of the command window carefully to persuade yourself that's what it does).

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November 15, 2023

Yeah, too many developers don't realize that a billion people live in a time zone whose offset is not a whole number of hours! But it's easy to change the times on your photos:

 

1. Select all the photos needing changing.

 

2. Do Metadata > Edit Capture Time.

 

3. Select Adjust To A Specified Date And Time.

 

4. Add 4.5 hours to the Corrected Time.

 

5. Click Change All.

 

This SHIFTS the times of all the selected photos by 4.5 hours (read the caption at the top of the command window carefully to persuade yourself that's what it does).

Participant
November 15, 2023

This would appear to change the time of ALL the selected photographs to one particular time and date and not add 4.5 to each individual time...

JohanElzenga
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November 15, 2023
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This would appear to change the time of ALL the selected photographs to one particular time and date and not add 4.5 to each individual time...


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No, it does as John explained. Read the caption at the top carefully.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga