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Can we also ask people to include their .env with the TZ variable and the output of |
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Adding my old issue #9331 to here ... (no need to duplicate info, right?)
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Hi, I also have a lot of photos misplaced in my timeline. Those photos are old photos from external libraries. Some photos from Google Takeout does not have any useful metadata. IMG_20130913_081540.JPG: PANO_20170416_105856.jpg: Metadata: CameraZOOM-20150715115510237.jpg: IMG_20151222_135145.vr.jpg: |
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Immich v1.111.0 Hey, I am having issues with the location data. I made the switch to immich by exporting 20k photos from Apple Photos to a directory, then imported them into Immich at a later date. The issus is that some photos, mainly ones taking in the USA in my case, are showing up in China or the middle of the ocean. I have found that the longitude is being calculated incorrectly, it is positive in Immich, when it should be a negative value. Flipping longitude to negative fixes location. Original Coordinates: Immich's Coordinates after import I did search for the issue but couldn't find anyone else reporting it |
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Sony dslr-a550 a zip of your file: DSC09740.ZIP |
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i have this problem as well, shooting photos with my GRIIIx. i think the reason is that i keep any sort of GPS tagging turned off, and the photos coming out of the camera do not have time zone info. my photos make it into immich via an external library. i would like to keep both the camera and the server in UTC and then have the photos display in the correct timezone for the users browser. |
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as requested, posting my experience over here as well. Immich displays a lot of my images and videos in the wrong date in the timeline, and in the incorrect timezone. for example: this also happens with most videos: My server is running in PST timezone, photos were taken in PST timezone, browser is in the PST timezone, and i have the TZ variable set in my environment variables on the server: Attaching both a zip of the video: and the image: |
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me too..... |
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Moved a lot of photos out of Apple Photos, and kept the EXIF data intact, but a bunch of them showing up with the wrong date, but you can see the metadata right in immich, so not sure why it shows up like this. Expected date is listed, just not sure where the first date is coming from or why immich cares about it? |
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ok, i'm now having more bizarre behavior. here's a zip with photos the end result in my timeline is that 1975 is totally correct. it appears under however -- 1990 appears under i refreshed metadata for all images taken that weekend after installing the update. i expect to see both these photos appearing under saturday sept 28th, with 1990 appearing above 1975. separately, i'm not sure where the timeline of |
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zip file (of one effected file) is attached. All of the effected files are .mov like that time it should have is 2015-07-14 08:37:26+02:00 |
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Weird one, i even have a fix, but i don't understand it: expected date: date displayed: zip: the fix:
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Hey, exiftool 2.JPG exiftool 2_airdrop.JPG |
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All my assets have correct time in Immich, but wrong Time zones (original is +03:00) in several cases: Videos are usually fine in the web, but in an app (iOS) they all have phone time zone. Video metadataPhotos have server time zone in the web and phone time in the mobile app. Photo metadata |
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I found a SOLUTION for my video casesnote:using example times issue:locally on my Mac Apps correct time and zone displayed: good vs bad videos:checking the differences between video files that worked and ones that were wrong I found a missing metadata tag make sure you have the right offset at the end eg: solution(assuming -3 timezone delta for you) other things to trycheck your docker containers date is correct (assuming make sure XXX is the correct timezone. If its wrong, check your servers timezone config, and check that its properly set in your docker container. |
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i think i found a real issue: Immich combines dates/times with timezones/offsets from different tags that are not supposed to go together in #12650 (comment), DateTimeOriginal is combined with the offset from CreateDate in #12650 (comment), DateTimeOriginal is combined with OffsetTime which is also the wrong combination (see my reply) Unless someone points out a flaw in my reasoning i will go ahead an make a bug report EDIT: |
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Posting here based on advice given in different thread for different issue, pointing to this thread for ALL date/time related issues. Running immich v1.140.1 in a docker container on an ubuntu 22.04 desktop distro. Images are:
My issue is that a lot of my images are being shown on their file-modified date, instead of creation date, in the example below they are shown on Today's date 2025:09:08, instead of when they were taken/modified [DateTimeOriginal] = [ModifyDate] = 2016:05:15 10:48:56. [ExifTool] ExifToolVersion : 13.34
This seemingly affects everything I change, as when I tried writing DateTimeOriginal tag to a large batch of photos at once, to make sure they had the proper and same EXIF tag, they all moved to todays date in Immich, after I did a complete refresh of all my image metadata. I can replicate it easily, by editing photo dates using Synology Photos for example, which sets DateTimeOriginal + Modifydate to what I state it should be - but of course also changes the FileModifyDate tag to todays date + time. When going into Immich, photo is shown on "today". Attachment: |
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#22002 as my issue posted here. HEIC files are parsed as having an INCORRECT default TIMEZONE(all UTC)
Although I can perform batch time offset conversion through the web interface, I need to search for problematic photos and perform operations after each backup, which is very cumbersome and prone to errors. I still hope to solve the problem of missing time zone information for photos in HEIC files, because there is no problem with the time or sorting displayed in the default album or other app on iPhone. Thank you. |
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The mobile app follow the system time zone you set on your iPhone, rather than the actual time zone, affecting both Android and iOS/iPadOS I have tested this extensively, and it is definitely a mobile app issue. Whether the photo was taken on the phone or downloaded from elsewhere, the app ignores the time zone stored on the server database or embedded in the file and always displays the timestamp using the phone’s time zone. Anyone can repeat this bug by:
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After so many time, I really don't understand why TZ is considered only if "DateTaken" or GPS coordinates are present in the file... So it doesn't works for any non-jpeg or any WhatsApp (for example) image. |
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zip: photo.zip Immich v2.0.1 (Windows Desktop Docker) This happens to every image that has no time zone information. Does this work as intended? Is there a solution? |
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I believe I am seeing the same issue that @lisauporoten-commits mentioned here: #12650 (comment) Photos with no date information... I downloaded a photo from Discord app to my Recents album (iOS), and the metadata had been stripped by Discord. This photo was automatically uploaded to Immich as it should be. When viewing the image in Immich web, it put the datetime as 6 hours ahead of what it should be. (My UTC offset is -6 hours). This issue is much easier to notice when the difference spans midnight: this image was downloaded at 11pm in my timezone, (-6 from UTC). It shows in the Immich Web timeline as being 5am the next day, which is unexpected (it should show as 11pm in expected day). It shows on Mobile timeline (the device I used to upload it to immich) on the correct day and correct time. It also shows on the correct day and time in the Immich App on my partner's iOS device (a device that does not have the image downloaded locally). My immich server has my timezone set to My web preferences are to use the default locale, which appears to be using the correct times for my timezone. Update: Per this comment, it seems iOS app is using the correct date despite the server's dates. I looked in the postgres db and found the following: For images uploaded with proper metadata (images taken on my iOS device), when I look at the But, when looking at the offending images (the ones which I downloaded from Discord and as such, the metadata was stripped), all of the above timestamp fields in the db have approx the same time and timezone, including the Comparing the files with metadata and the files without, I am guessing that this means that the offending files (the ones without metadata) actually have the wrong time set in the It is unclear how |
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the sample picthe expected date, including timezone2024-08-21 22:25:45 UTC+08:00 current date produced by immich2024-08-21 22:25:45 inside the container ✅ @bo0tzz says I should post here, so I post my issue here again as #23058 time for images without EXIF showing 8 hours earlier on the webuiI have already added /etc/localtime and even /etc/timezone in the Docker Compose configuration, and set the environment variable TZ=Asia/Shanghai (UTC+08:00)
But in the mobile app, the time displayed is correct. This makes me think that the time stored in the database might be correct, and there could be an issue when the webui retrieves or converts the time Actually, this issue has persisted since version after 1.115. I had been using version 1.115 all along, which version both webui and app are showing correct time Is this a bug, or is there some configuration I haven't found yet? |
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I've mentioned this in my issue #23383 but since I suppose it was a duplicate (my bad) it was closed, but I feel like this might be important to this issue, so I wanted to add this bit to the discussion, so that it can maybe help move along this problem. I noticed that the API for the asset/get (getAssetInfo) endpoint has this to say about
But when I requested the asset info myself using
But that does not appear to be happening for these assets that lack EXIF metadata |
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I uploaded seperate zip files since github has a limit of 25mb per file. I have some photos and videos, when on device everything shows completely good, I also tested with examing raw metadata with various tools, also uploaded to google photos, apple photos, ente photos and they show the correct metadata. Even the immich mobile app shows the correct metadata when on device section. Once I upload it, they mess up the data and everything is messed up, the same photos and videos shows different time and timezone on web ui and mobile app, I tried uploading from mobile app, web ui, everything no luck. uploaded my docker-compose and env files. I have set my TZ to It's been a lot of year since this issue arised and immich is perfect and I think this is the only part that needs correction. Thank you for your work! |
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As everyone should know by now, photo and video metadata is a bit of a mess. On top of that, we're also now talking about timezones. Long story short, we know there will always be room for improvement in this area.
If you have an issue with:
Please post a comment in this discussion with the following, and we will happily investigate the issue.
EDIT: if you don't post the three points mentioned above, you're comment will simply be marked as off topic and hidden.
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