Time shifted by four hours on edited photos in PE 2026

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October 31, 2025
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Each time a raw photo is edited, then saved (Save as... jpeg), the new jpeg image (shown in a version set) displays the wrong time in the organizer, exactly 4 hours earlier than the original. But when I bring up the file properties in windows explorer (properties -> details), that still shows the correct time the photo was taken. The cameras being used to create these photos are set to the correct time zone and date/time, as is my PC.

Is this a known bug, or do I just need to change a setting somewhere?

Problem or error

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Skipper Chris

Known Participant

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.

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clmisener

Participant

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.

Greg_S.

Community Expert

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.)

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