Edit Capture Time XMP vs. EXIF

Scope:
- LR 1.4.1 and 2 Beta
- Any file that is edited using Metadata:Edit Capture Time
(Note: detail info below may be helpful to those seeking to understand date/time problems/issues with LR and other tools)
Background:
LR allows editing/offsetting of image capture time via the Metadata:Edit Capture Time menu option.
Changing the time in LR alters the following EXIF date/time metadata fields as displayed in LR:
- Date Time Original
- Date Time Digitized
- Date Time
Writing the LR metadata to the image file via the Metadata:Save Metadata to File command writes the values into the images relevant EXIF and XMP date/time metadata fields.
Challenge:
LR writes the correctly edited times into the XMP date/time metadata fields but writes incorrect times into the EXIF date/time metadata fields.
LR uses XMP date/time metadata fields for its displayed time data, not EXIF date/time metadata fields. As a consequence, the user does not know the EXIF time fields have been incorrectly changed unless they check them in a tool that displays or uses the EXIF date/time metadata fields.
Solution:
Use a batch file based on exiftools to copy the LR edited XMP date/times into the EXIF date/time metadata fields.
Resources:
- Batch file LR XMP/EXIF date/time bug fixer here - LR-xmpdatetime2exif.bat: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/LR-datetimexmp2exif.bat
- Batch file arguments file (required) here LR-xmpdatetime2exif.args: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/LR-datetimexmp2exif.args
A few useful tools to better understand this challenge:
- Batch file to display relevant date/time metadata fields here - list-exif-tags-sample-datetime.bat: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/list-exif-tags-sample-datetime.bat
- Batch file to display set of EXIF metadata here - list-exif-tags-sample.bat: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/list-exif-tags-sample.bat
- Batch file to display set of XMP metadata here - list-xmp-tags-sample.bat: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/list-xmp-tags-sample.bat
- Batch file to display complete set of metadata here- list-metadata-tags-sample.bat: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/list-metadata-tags-sample.bat
- Sample photo file here sample.jpg: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/sample.jpg
Preparation:
All batch files require an installed copy of exiftools by Phil Harvey (free) available here: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
1. Download exiftools windows command line version and rename the file exiftools.exe.
2. Place the exiftools.exe file in your windows directory or on your system path.
Utilization
1. In Lightroom, select the folder containing the photos you need to fix.
2. In Lightroom, select all the photos you need to fix.
3. In Lightroom, select Metadata:Save Metadata to File (this step ensures you dont lose any Lightroom specific metadata that has not been embedded in the file).
4. Using Windows Explorer or another utility, backup your jpg files
5. Using Windows Explorer copy the LR-xmpdatetime2exif.bat and LR-xmpdatetime2exif.args files to the folder with the jpg files you need to fix.
6. Using Windows Explorer double click on LR-xmpdatetime2exif.bat
7. Wait for the batch file to process.
8. In Lightroom, ensure the photos you just fixed are still selected, if not, re-select them.
9. In Lightroom, select Metadata:Read Metadata from File (this step ensures that Lightroom has all the revised EXIF date/time metadata loaded).
Detail:
This challenge is a subset and another manifestation that LR 1.4 uses the XMP date/time metadata fields, not the EXIF date/time metadata fields that other programs use and rely on. There have been numerous posts regarding other manifestations of this problem.
Most of the confusion relates to several primary factors:
1. Cameras embed EXIF metadata into photo files. Adobe products, and some others, support XMP metadata, which is not part of the EXIF standard. If a tool was developed p

Detail:
This challenge is a subset and another manifestation that LR 1.4 uses the XMP time data fields, not the EXIF fields that other programs use and rely on. There have been numerous posts regarding other manifestations of this problem.
Most of the confusion relates to several primary factors:
1. Cameras embed EXIF metadata into photo files. Adobe products, and some others, support XMP metadata, which is not part of the EXIF standard. If a tool was developed prior to XMP, such as Exifer or PSP 9, then that tool has no way to view or edit XMP metadata. If a tool only displays, edits and maintains XMP, such as LR, then the two data sets can become de-coupled for common data points, such as date/time. If a tool relies on the EXIF version of a common data point, such as RoboGEO, but the date/time was edited by a tool that only maintains XMP data, such as LR, then the EXIF dependent tool will be working with out of synch data.
2. LR, PSE, Bridge, etc. use, either exclusively or primarily, XMP metadata, even though they may label/display it as EXIF. LR, for instance, only displays the XMP date/time values, even though they are labeled EXIF.
3. The EXIF specification assigns time field names different than those commonly used in various tools when labeling/displaying EXIF time data fields. You will find the very same EXIF date/time field labeled a wide variety of ways in even a handful of tools.
4. The XMP specification has a namespace area labeled EXIF. Adding to the confusion even more, the XMP-EXIF namespace has date/time field names that duplicate those of EXIF date/time fields.
As you can see, if you add these four factors together, it is no surprise there is widespread confusion related to photo file date/time in general and LRs handling of it in particular.

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