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Charlotte2674927119yx
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July 23, 2024
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How to export images and keep the date & time of the moment they were taken?

  • July 23, 2024
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I would like to export my edited RAW images to jpg files while keeping the date and time that they were taken.

I recently switched to a windows computer, I never had this problem before whilst using a macbook. 

 

Are there any settings that I should change so the date of the jpg isn't the date that I exported the image?

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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July 23, 2024

You are probably looking at the wrong date/time. The date and time the picture was taken will remain, unless you strip all metadata on export. The file creation date and time will be the time the new file was created, so maybe that is what you are looking at.

 

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Charlotte2674927119yx작성자
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July 26, 2024

Thank you for your answer! Yes, that's indeed the date that I'm looking at! (The time the new file was created)

Is it possible to have that date automatically changed to the date that the picture was taken?

I always export my images to an external library to show them to my family and they were always at the right order, but since I started using the new computer they're now not at the right order. 

I think that that's because the external library sorts the images by the date that the file was created.

Thank you in advance!

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richardplondonCommunity Expert
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July 26, 2024

What I do: in export settings, I tell LrC to prefix each filename with the date taken. This disregards the file creation date altogether. In many contexts it is straightforward to sort images by their names. The included date format needs to be something like "2024-07-26" (YYYY-MM-DD) and not something like "26July2024", if it is to sort chronologically.

 

Many image gallery systems naturally know to refer to date-taken metadata provided the export has included thus.

 

In other file browsing contexts that are properly aware of digital images, it is already possible to sort according to date taken and to disregard the file creation or modification dates.

 

Taking Windows Explorer as an example: you can make this metadata field visible as a Details column, and then sort on that

 

 

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