Why can't I sort my "Creation Date", on files, in order?

As explained more thoroughly in that other thread, there are several different possible date fields in most metadata schemas.

"Created date" is something that actually is quite often mucked about by the OS file system of the device, and it changes the "created date" to the moment the file is brought into that device. So it can be a problematic field.

My Samsung phones do this, and after having switched phones, and importing many images/video into the new phone ... it fricking renamed ALL of them to the date of the phone switch! Now I need to get all of them off the phone, and use Bridge probably to rename the flipping files to their origination/time name. NOT happy with that!

But that sort of thing is why the devs of Premiere decided to use the calcualated field "encoded time" ... which takes the original capture time, applies the time-code change of which UTC was listed for capture, what UTC the importing computer is using, to come up with the date/time.

So when the capture device has both correct time and correct UTC for the location the images were shot, it all works fine. When the capture device isn't properly set for UTC of the shooting location ... it's off.

Every possible date field has liabilities. As noted above, even ... or especially ... the old Date Created thing.

Yea, it's a pain alright.

It might be a discrepancy between the Created Date and Encoded Date metadata, which could cause such issues. Please refer to this thread to understand how it might affect sorting in Premiere Pro. Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Sumeet

Hi @Subsystem79,

Sorry for the anomaly. I wonder if you are sorting slightly differently in Explorer. Are multiple columns being sorted there? Not sure why you're seeing different results. Rather odd. I hope the team or a community member might be able to shed a little more light on this problem. Sorry for the hassle.

Thanks,
Kevin