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nutsnbolts
26th of November 2007 (Mon), 12:22
Hmm, I don't know what is going on but my image capture times are all wrong!

I have checked the time in my camera's and they have the proper times but when imported into Lightroom, they all come out a day behind?

HUH? What else do I need to check? The computer time is also correct. Is this a bug or......
PixelMagic
26th of November 2007 (Mon), 12:26
Are you sure your camera is not off by 12 hours? That would certainly cause your images to show up a day behind.
davidcrebelxt
26th of November 2007 (Mon), 12:30
There is a known bug in image time, has something to do with timezones too... no word on when/if this will be fixed in the 1.0 lifecycle.

Number of threads on Adobe forums of the issue,

here's one for example: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc49735/25
nutsnbolts
26th of November 2007 (Mon), 20:09
I am positive that my camera and laptop/computer are in the right time. They are definitely importing different times. I will explore the adobe forums regarding this "bug"
T.D.
26th of November 2007 (Mon), 20:12
Hmm, I don't know what is going on but my image capture times are all wrong!

I have checked the time in my camera's and they have the proper times but when imported into Lightroom, they all come out a day behind?

HUH? What else do I need to check? The computer time is also correct. Is this a bug or......

Not sure what would cause that, unless you have an import setting to adjust the time. You can adjust the time in LR.
T.D.
26th of November 2007 (Mon), 20:15
Also, this is a great forum for Lightroom issues:

http://www.lightroomforums.net
jbimages
27th of November 2007 (Tue), 00:53
Which version Lightroom are you using? I had this problem with version 1.0. For some reason Lightroom assumed the camera date/time was UTC, the time in the image was correct, however Lightroom was changing the day and creating a new folder at 1400 local time (we were 10 hours ahead of UTC). It was fixed in 1.1 and has been correct ever since.
nutsnbolts
27th of November 2007 (Tue), 02:39
I'm using LR 1.2. This just started happening.
cdifoto
27th of November 2007 (Tue), 02:49
Daylight Savings Time? Triple check everything.
davidcrebelxt
27th of November 2007 (Tue), 12:35
A few more threads showing that Date/Time is a known issue in Lightroom:

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c055d6c/0
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c0557de/0
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bc356b4/0
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c0335be/0
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?7@@.3bca14e9/2
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bc45e83/0
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3c052de0
jbimages
27th of November 2007 (Tue), 23:33
An interesting set of Links David C, the explanation of how the date time fields are interpreted by Ian Seward in http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bc45e83/0 is worth knowing. I did notice that a lot of the questions and "Me Toos" were about scanned images and those that had been modified in other programs.

One thing I did see is that Lightroom shows the times in the local time as set in the control panel. - This is understandable as they are stored in the database as seconds from an epoch date, not as a string (and probably converted to UTC on the way).

For the OP, you say your images come out a day behind your camera date. Is that exactly 24 hours or are there some minutes and seconds involved as well?