How to change time and date in Lightroom1. The Problem:
It's a pitty if you recognize after a travel that you had forgotten to change the time zone at your camera. This happens to me often. Fortunately there is a easy way in Lightroom to fix it. This step-by-step guide shows you how to do it:
2. Edit Capture Time...
Select in the Metadata menue "Edit Capture Time..."
3. Change the date/time
Now you have 3 choices:
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Adjust to a specified date and time
You can freely set a new date and/or new time.This is sensful if your camera had a completely wrong date or time for example after resetting the camera settings. -
Shift by a set number of hours
My most used feature to set the correct time zone. Unfortunately it is showing only full hours. India has for example UTC+5.5h and can not be set correctly via this option. You have to set it then with the first option "Adjust to a specified date and time" -
Change to file's creation time
This is if you have changed your time wrongly and want to reset it to the camera time.
On this screen shot I set the time to Pacific Standard Time (-8h) instead of my local time (CET):
After selecting the right time zone click on the "Change"-button to execute the action.
4. Result
After the execution of the action your meta data should have been changed like this:
