Inspiring

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Time zone setup

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
November 18, 2016
3 replies
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I just installed LR the other day, this morning I shot some photos of snow, as soon as I put my card into the computer Lightroom launched for import but I was told that the photos were taken 7 hours ago, well that is not right, they were taken "now". All I want is a definitive answer about how to set the correct time zone in LR, that's it, I don't want to change the metadata, just the global time offset, so it is correct.

How do I make that happen?

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T

TRU-IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHYAuthor

Inspiring

I did confirm today my camera clock is correct within seconds, that is not the issue

JoeKostoss

Community Expert

That does not answer the specific question that we asked. While the "Clock" may be set correctly to within a nano-second, what is the "Time Zone" set to in your camera?

T

TRU-IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHYAuthor

Inspiring

Time zone is correct also, i'm pretty ocd about that, central time zone US

cmgap

Community Expert

Hi TSPCo,

Is this the first time you are seeing a time stamp issue? Are you using an external GPS to track coordinates? If yes it may be related to that. If not can you check your camera settings?

At this point if you want the correct time stamp you will need to change the metadata on this batch of images. Victoria Bampton, a.k.a the Lightroom Queen has a tutorial here: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/time-camera-incorrect-change/

Hope this helps.

T

TRU-IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHYAuthor

Inspiring

Yes this the first time I saw the time issue, also the first time I tried to import into LR. No gps issue, didn't use it, other software I have used, asks you to set your offset from UTC upon installation, LR didn't. I will shoot some more today and see if the issue persists.

dj_paige

Legend

This is probably controlled by the time setting in your camera and not in Lightroom.

T

TRU-IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHYAuthor

Inspiring

I mentioned upon insertion of the card that was the time indicated, just happens to the be the time offset from UTC, I did have to reset the time in the camera back one hour, cuz I forgot to do it after daylight savings time ended, earlier this month. But still it would be 6 hours off (my offset from UTC is -6)

JoeKostoss

Community Expert

You may have the time set to what looks correct; however, you do not have the correct time zone in the camera.

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