rikscha
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Q: Metadata in different time zones - nightmare

I am very annoyed about this very apparent bug in Photos.

 

On the Mac version, you click the Get info button to check the date and time of a particular photo and it will display the correct time of when the picture was taken. It might be the case though that you are consolidating pictures from a particular 'event' from different people/sources and this always worked very well for me in iPhoto - pictures would be sorted correctly by date. Please note, I am talking about pictures that have been taken outside your usual timezone (i.e. on holidays abroad)

 

Importing those very same pictures now into Photos, very often (not always) yields in pictures being sorted incorrectly. Although, pictures from different sources have the correct date, they are being sorted based on my home timezone. I then obviously checked under Image -> Adjust Time,Date the embedded timezone of those pictures. Again, both pictures have the same timezone selected. There is no fix to this. Doesn't matter if I am changing the timezone or manually change entries, it will simply not sort the pictures correctly.

 

Photos on iOS will always display the time of my own home zone above any picture I have taken and sort it based on that. This is consistent with the Mac version in terms of sorting but iOS actually does give a bit of insight of why it is sorting pictures incorrectly.

 

Photos on iCloud.com is another story and it very often displays in 'moments' very different metadata about time, date locations and gets it very wrong.

 

I think there is a inconsistency in the Photo app or in the Photo Cloud library in general that causes this problem. I know that while Photo was in beta on icloud.com many people reported that pictures would display Cupertinos time zone for any picture they have taken.

 

I am not sure this can be easily fixed because it doesn't seem to be just a case of how the different Photo app interpret metadata. It might already be the case that Photos have been damaged when I imported them manually into the Photos app. That would mean re-importing and adjusting of thousands of photos for me which were in perfect order beforehand.

 

What is your experience?

Posted on Apr 17, 2015 7:26 AM

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  • by Lost in Asia,

    Lost in Asia Lost in Asia Sep 16, 2016 9:41 PM in response to OMG-Really
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    Sep 16, 2016 9:41 PM in response to OMG-Really

    Bump.

     

    Has anyone yet found a convenient way to fix this sort of thing? I've got a mix of pictures from three different sources - my iPhone, my digital camera, and a friend's digital camera. All were "correctly" set for local date settings, in this case west coast North America. In Photos for El Capitan, they all display the correct "local" time when the photo was taken (although in Photos for iOS 10, they display the incorrect time). However, all the photos taken with the iPhone SE are time-shifted to match what the time was in my "home" time zone (East Asia) and wind up massively out of order (about 15 hours later). This is really messing up Moments and the automated slideshows that, while a nice feature of iOS 10, have made this bug more annoying.

     

    I'm hoping something will improve in Sierra in a few days, but is there any relatively easy way to do this now? I'm wondering about somehow getting the photos off my iPhone and on to my desktop without going through the Photos app, but I'm not sure if that's even possible. (That'd also be a good way to give the photos useful file names, but I guess it might kill the Live Photos feature.)

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