Photos Taken Time Shifted by Several Hours After Editing and Saving JPEGs in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2026 Organizer

I’m really  curious about all this concern over a few hours with meta data.   No once, ever, has anyone ever asked me “Hey glenn, did  you edit that image at 10am or 2pm?”   Just seems to me that people are a bit nitpicking- Oh my god adobe!  You gotta fix this bug with the time difference.  Yes I can see how some may be a bit bothered with it, but a bit of a time difference when editing images simply does not seem to warrant much of a discussion.  Of course I doubt that anyone other than myself doesn’t really care about a few hours.

Know who cares about my meta data associated with my images?  No one, I don’t care if the time shows 10am, or 6pm-- as long as the image shows within a day or two- I’m good.

Know who cares, other than yourself, about what time your images were edited?  No one. 

I have the same problem in PSE 2026 in Mac OS. Time shift after processing pictures in Editor results in 2 hours difference. In Organizer you have the original picture and the processed not at the same place. Super annoying.

Super annoying, this is still happening April 2026. Exactly six hours for me. ​@Adobe Administration 

​@Gnome54 said:   PS. In the replies above, I don’t think “Nancy” at Adobe exists. She’s been there since 2023 and posted one reply? Sounds like a bot to me.

She is actually acknowledged in the About screen as being part of the development team.  😜

With Organizer 26.0 and Editor 26.2 it is still doing it in March 2026. I have a photo shown (correctly) as taken at 8:11am in the Organizer. After editing it the new date is 9:11pm so I need to manually change it.

While in Editor, if I look at File > File Info > RAW data I see five date items:

         <xmp:ModifyDate>2026-01-18T08:11:09+12:00</xmp:ModifyDate>
         <xmp:CreateDate>2026-01-18T08:11:09</xmp:CreateDate>
         <xmp:MetadataDate>2026-01-18T08:11:09+12:00</xmp:MetadataDate>
         <photoshop:DateCreated>2026-01-18T08:11:09+12:00</photoshop:DateCreated>
         <exif:DateTimeOriginal>2026-01-18T08:11:09</exif:DateTimeOriginal>

I’m guessing the problem is related to the CreateDate (or TimeOriginal) not having a UTC adjustment (nor Daylight Savings) but the Organizer using the ModifyDate for edited photos. That does include the UTC so it then adds the DST too, giving me a 13 hour shift.

They need to change the Editor so that the ModifyDate’s UTC details are the same as the CreateDate item, or change Organizer to only ever show the CreateDate even on edited photos.

PS. In the replies above, I don’t think “Nancy” at Adobe exists. She’s been there since 2023 and posted one reply? Sounds like a bot to me.

This is still happening. Mine shifts the time by 6 hours.

I have just seen the 1 hour offset on 4,000 raw+jpeg files!  Editing the raw file also results in the date/time of the photo displaying as the time of edit!  I have reported this again to the Adobe developers.

Issue still existing (2.2.2026) - editing a jpg in PSE editor > edited file time stamp is +1 hour. Anoying, as this making wrong order in the whole photo set.

This happens to each edited image, regardless time zone, made.

• Example, using Pixel 7 phone camera (filename PXL_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSSSS.jpg, where HHMM is UTC)
• Image time stamp has local time 09:30 (UTC+4), where it was made.
• Edit at home (UTC+1), edited picture gets time stamped 10:30 - one hour later than orig file 09:30

As previous poster mentioned, looking into that on Windows file explorer, both files (original & edited) showing same time stamp 09:30. 

PS: if I remember right, this has also been on the previous version of PSE, I’ve used ((PSE 2022 or 2023?)

An update would be highly appreciated, as manual correction for each image is quite annoying.

I have the most current version and it still does this.  Extremely frustrating.  It changes the order of the photos in the organizer based on date.  So when the date is wrong it moves the version set.  Right now I’m hand editing the date on every file I save in a version set.  It should have the same date as the original file when its in a version set.  Its been that way for at least 20 years.  And don’t get me going on the save as not working properly either.  How can they break that.  And how can we be in February with no fix.

I have seen this on a single raw file edit (although the time shift was 7 hours.)  There is an update to Elements 2026 which is currently being rolled out to users.  Please report back whether it fixes the issue for you.  (Since, in my case, it was a random instance, I can't say for sure whether the problem has been fixed.  But the update has fixed some other issues with the Save/Save As dialog.)