Lightroom classic getting capture day wrong
I took pictures yesterday afternoon and this morning then went to import them all into Lightroom classic this afternoon. I have always used Lightroom to sort my photos by date and noticed today that Lightroom was going to put all of the photos into a new folder with yesterday’s date instead of some in a folder for yesterday and some in a folder for today. I thought my camera’s time must be way off so I went to change the time on my camera but it was only off by an hour due to daylight savings time. I have no idea why Lightroom is reading the capture date different from my camera settings. Any ideas?
The camera is a z 6ii. Only thing new since the last import is that I updated the firmware on the camera but still the camera’s date and time is within an hour of correct.
Posted Apr 5, 2021, 3:01 AM UTC
Double (triple?) check that your AM/PM is correct. I've made that mistake before and it looks like it's only off by an hour but it can mean shooting things in what you think is the afternoon yesterday get tagged as the morning today.
Otherwise... are you importing directly from the card out of the camera or are you copying the files locally first (unlikely but that does introduce an opportunity for the capture time to be changed).
It was the dang am/pm. I’m an idiot. Thanks for the help!
Glad it was an easy fix. Don’t feel bad, as I’ve said I’ve done it multiple times. Thank you kindly for the gold, totally unnecessary, but thank you.