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flysi3000
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January 4, 2025
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Something strange is afoot with dates in Lightroom

  • January 4, 2025
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This is a weird one, so apologies in advance for the lengthy post. I noticed that some of my photos aren't sorting correctly by capture date in Lightroom/Lightroom Classic. As background, I'm using Lightroom Mobile on iPhone/iPad, and Lightroom + Lightroom Classic on a Mac laptop. As one example, I took a bunch of pictures on Dec. 29th around 11pm on my iPhone with the Moment Pro Camera app. I imported these into Lightroom Mobile, and edited them in the Lightroom app on my laptop. Looking at these images' full EXIF data in LRC, the Date Time Original property says I took them on Jan. 10th, 2025 - which, as I'm typing this, is six days from now. Date Time and Date Time Digitized say the correct date of Dec. 29th. According to ChatGPT, the offset is exactly 13 days and 8 hours apart, which is totally meaningless to me.

The source files are also correctly saved on my local machine in folders organized by date. There are a bunch of other images with similar discrepancies, and I can't figure out a) when this happened, or b) if there's a pattern with the amount of time that the actual date and the incorrect date are offset by. 

 

Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? Do I live in the multiverse now? Help!

Correct answer JohanElzenga

Make sure you update to Lightroom Classic 14.1.1. Lightroom Classic 14.1 has a bug that causes this issue with synced images. See also https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-edit-sync-photo-changes-the-capture-time/idi-p/15037483

 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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January 4, 2025

Make sure you update to Lightroom Classic 14.1.1. Lightroom Classic 14.1 has a bug that causes this issue with synced images. See also https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-edit-sync-photo-changes-the-capture-time/idi-p/15037483

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga