iPhone shows wrong time of day for videos

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iPhone shows wrong time of day for videos

Videos taken anywhere but in my home time zone will indicate they were shot at the wrong time -- they'll show the time at my home (CDT) not the local time (EDT, MDT or PDT) when and where the movie was shot. Screen shots also exhibit this behavior. Photos have a time stamp showing the local time as expected. This all becomes apparent when I import a mix of videos and photos taken in another time zone into iphoto which then displays items within an event out of the known sequence. When intermingled movies and pictures are taken in my home time zone then there is no discrepancy.

BTW, I have my iphone set to set the time automatically and I have iPhoto on my home iMac. Also, I can see these same times when i view picture/video info with an app called Koredoko on the iPhone, so I don't think it's an import/iPhoto issue.

Can anyone confirm that under similar circumstances that they either do or don't get the same results?

iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Aug 9, 2012 9:53 AM

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Answer 1

peterden

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Oct 27, 2012 3:52 PM in response to LBSGuy

Not sure if I fully understand what is happening, but maybe it is related to a quirk I have noticed with automatic time zone adjustment - photos taken on my iPhone (have not tried videos) show up in iPhoto as having been taken at a different time than the local time at which they were taken. I am not sure this is an error, though. It seems to me that the photo information is correct - for example, if I take a photo at 9pm Eastern, and then I import it into iPhoto in California with my Mac's time zone set to Pacific, it will show that the photo was taken at 6pm (Pacific), which is true. If I change my Mac's time zone to Eastern it will show that the photo was taken at 9pm (also correct).

The only real issue I see is that iPhoto does not remind you it is displaying the capture time as adjusted to that of the device on wich you are viewing it. It would be nice if iPhoto displayed that info and gave an option for displaying pictures in the time zone where they were captured.

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Answer 2

Apr 16, 2014 11:01 AM in response to LBSGuy

LBSGuy: I have the exact same issue. I recently traveled 2 hours ahead with my iPhone 5s, set to automatic time zone. I took a bunch of photos and videos. Came home, imported into iPhoto. While the photos have the correct time (the local time when I took the photo), the movies have the incorrect time - namely the time it would have been back home when I took the movie. Easy fix is to use iPhoto to adjust all the movies by the difference in time zones, e.g. exactly 2 hours ahead. But I shouldn't have to fix this - it should have worked and I'm pretty sure this wasn't an issue in the past....

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