Can Lightroom add the timezone to the EXIF?

[Sgt_Strider]

Is this possible as I don't see such option in LR. This would come in handy for my travel photos.

 

[Mark Sirota]

Believe it or not, the EXIF standard doesn't provide a mechanism for encoding the timezone, except in the GPS data. So LR can't do it, and nothing else can do it either.

 

[Sgt_Strider]

Wow that's pretty disappointing. Thanks for the info.

 

[Halfje-Bruin]

You can however update the capture time to include the time difference caused by the time zone. After some unfortunate actions from my part I changed the time of the camera to UTC (no timezone or daylight savings) and adjust the capture time after importing the images in LR.

 

[Sgt_Strider]

What do you mean?

 

[Halfje-Bruin]

See the following link from the online help:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2.'/WS5726446'-DC72-4a1f-A665-1E9'9'7A9FFD.html

As said, the timezone itself cannot be encoded but the time difference because of the time zone compared to GMT or UTC can be added/subtracted from the capture time.

 

[wblink]

Believe it or not, the EXIF standard doesn't provide a mechanism for encoding the timezone, except in the GPS data. So LR can't do it, and nothing else can do it either.

Is it not possile to do this in the metadata?
Or is it not suited for that?

Another option would be to make it a function in LR itself.

I think it is a good idea, just me ....

 

[Mark Sirota]

Willem, the original poster asked explicitly about EXIF, so that's the question I answered. Lightroom could provide its own metadata field for this to be populated later, but Adobe generally doesn't do this -- for the most part, they follow existing metadata standards such as EXIF, IPTC, and TIFF.

There are third-party plugins that populate their own metadata fields, and use them to modify standardized fields on export. I could envision one that allowed the user to enter timezone information, and then adjusted the EXIF data accordingly on export, but I'm not sure that would actually solve the problem.

The Right Solution is to petition JEITA to add timezone to a future revision of the EXIF standard.

 

[Sgt_Strider]

Thanks for the information guys. I'm not interested in non-standard compliant programs that will do what I want.

 

[wblink]

Willem, the original poster asked explicitly about EXIF, so that's the question I answered. Lightroom could provide its own metadata field for this to be populated later, but Adobe generally doesn't do this -- for the most part, they follow existing metadata standards such as EXIF, IPTC, and TIFF.

There are third-party plugins that populate their own metadata fields, and use them to modify standardized fields on export. I could envision one that allowed the user to enter timezone information, and then adjusted the EXIF data accordingly on export, but I'm not sure that would actually solve the problem.

The Right Solution is to petition JEITA to add timezone to a future revision of the EXIF standard.

Thanks Mark.
I understand.
But I see the needed info is there (GPS, date/time (must be UTC I think)) to get the timezone out of a list, and from there create the Location details and local date/time.
Most important (hmm, what IS important) to me is the creation of location out of the GPS-data.
All fields are there, specified. Just need a piece of software that can take care of this.

 

[samdring]

Thanks Mark.
I understand.
But I see the needed info is there (GPS, date/time (must be UTC I think)) to get the timezone out of a list, and from there create the Location details and local date/time.
Most important (hmm, what IS important) to me is the creation of location out of the GPS-data.
All fields are there, specified. Just need a piece of software that can take care of this.

DownloaderPro uses Geonames lookup during download

 

[wblink]

DownloaderPro uses Geonames lookup during download

The program is too much for me to add to others. It does not do EXACTLY what I want, but is the most "encounter of the third kind" I have seen sofar. So I think what I am asling IS possible.

The link to www.geonames.com is a nice 1!!!!

\Thanks.