How to display the Date and Time Zone in the Info in Photos 5.0 on Catalina

by: léonie

Last modified: Oct 29, 2022 11:57 PM

6 1990 Last modified Oct 29, 2022 11:57 PM

We can make the time zone visible in the Info for a photo - this is new in Photos 5.0 on Catalina and possible in all versions of Photo up to Photos 7 on Monterey, but no longer in Photos 8 on Ventura.

Photos is using the medium format for the date and time as specified in the System Preferences > Language & Region > Advanced. If you change the medium formate for the time to include a time zone suffix, you will see all times with a time zone name in the Info for a photo (after restarting Photos and the System Preferences).

For example: I have set the time format like this:

And now I can see the time zone with the date and time in the Info in Photos.

This makes it easy to see, if photos have been imported with a wrong time zone tag and Photos is reading the time stamp set in the camera wrong. If a photo is sorted incorrectly, I am using "Image > Adjust Date & Time" to change the time zone to the time zone of the camera clock, but not the "Time Adjusted".

If you try the same with an earlier version of Photos , it is buggy. Photos will always display the time zone name of the current system time, not the time zone associated with the capture date.

This user tip has been created from this discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250813135?page=1