P: Edit/Sync Photo changes the Capture Time.

[Cameron Braun]

I use Lightroom for culling through wedding photos, and as of yesterday's update, any time I increase or decrease the rating of an image (or apply any other kind of edit) it will add 4 hours to the capture time, therefore sending that photo to a random place later in the collection, only for me to find it again as I'm moving through. In fact, it just happened twice, as I edited a photo that had already been changed, and it added 4 more. What in the world??? This could prove to be exceptionally annoying.

Photos are syncing.

LR version 14.1

MacOS 14.7.1

M1 Max

[mcnallyj]

After updating to Lightroom Classic 14.1 all shots from my iPhone which go through the cloud are losing their original capture dates.  A shot on my phone that goes throught the syncing proces may end up with the original capture date, a date a few days into the future or some I imported today are showing Jan 10 2025.  I've tried using the Metadata command to revert time to original which often works but sometimes changes a correct time to an incorrect time.

Pretty much everything imported in December is not showing the correct capture date order.  The other thing I've noticed is this process is now importing video files when syncing which it never has done before.  Not sure if these are bugs but they have definitely thrown my folders into disarray.

Jim McNally

[nikunj.m]

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[KentSpain85]

Hello, I've found a very, very frustrating bug. I have my Canon CR3 photos imported, and the time stamp on all the photos are correct, but for some reason Lightroom Classic is importing SOME IMAGES incorrectly. I figured I'd remove the photo and readd it, and it will add it correctly with the correct time stamp in the information window, and within 5-10 seconds it will throw it somewhere else within the library.

I originally had XMP data being saved, I thought it was that. So I disabled it and removed all the XMP files, and reimported the images, and they imported correctly. Within 15 seconds, they would jump again to another location in the library. Here's an example:

This is what Windows reports (which is correct):

This is what Lightroom Classic reports upon importing:

This is what Lightroom reports after a few seconds

As you can see it has changed the time, thus throwing it in the middle of a set of photos taken hours before.

I have removed the photos, removed the XMP data, reimported, and it's always the same behavior.

The TRULY frastring thing is that if I reimport them, edit them, and then have to re-read the metadata or anything like that, then all the edits will be lost. This is truly broken and random. And it happens to MANY MANY images.

Any suggestions?

Windows 11, LRC 14.1

[Jao vdL]

It is probably one of many timezone bugs again. Lightroom keeps having issues with timezone adjustment and has had weird bugs with it since the beginning. I now keep my camera in just one timezone and adjust the clock instead when timezone shifts to avoid this. 

[johnrellis]

@KentSpain85: " LRC 14.1"

Update to LR 14.1.1, which has a fix for this bug.

[johnrellis]

@mcnallyj: "After updating to Lightroom Classic 14.1 all shots from my iPhone which go through the cloud are losing their original capture dates."

Upgrade to 14.1.1, which has a fix for this bug.

[mcnallyj]

Thanks for passing this info along. I’ve updated and I think things are performing the way they should regarding the capture date.

[defaultnberfe6dqs5j]

Hallo zusammen,

ich habe jetzt immer wieder das Thema, dass sich die Sortierung der Fotos verändert.

(LrC v14.1 & Lightroom Ipad v 10.1).

Grundlegend habe ich meine Ordner nach Aufnahmedatum/Zeit sortiert. Nachdem ich die Fotos importiert habe ist die Reihenfolge in Ordnung. Nach dem Bearbeiten und Bewerten der Fotos, ändert sich bei manchen Fotos die Aufnahmezeit um genau -1h. Dadurch ändert sich dann die Reihenfolge.

Hat eventuell jemand das gleich verhalten festgestellt oder gibt es schon eine Abhilfe?

Danke und lg.

Flo

[moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

[F. McLion]

Vermutlich betrifft das Bilder, welche auch via Sammlungen mit der cloud synchronisiert sind, richtig?

Ein Problem aus dieser Ecke wurde mit 14.1.1 behoben.

Mach ein Update, und setzte anschliessend die Aufnahmezeit mit der entsprechenden Funktion in LrC zurück.

[defaultnberfe6dqs5j]

Vielen Dank! Ich denke es funktioniert nun!

[Trevor28395044mpjk]

I am also experiencing this issue. Seems to be time zone related. Lightroom seemingly randomly adds 6 hours to the Date Time Original of my images. Re-importing the metadata from disk fixes it temporarily, but then they get changed again. As I'm working on a collection, it increasingly gets out of order, it's very annoying, especially since the first time I tried to fix the issue by reloading metadata, Lightroom also wiped out my stars, flags, categories, tags, and edits so I had to start over from scratch. 

[kenw63599111]

Have you updated LrC to 14.1.1?