Gallery not using roaming date and time

[ScoobySteve]

Hi everyone.

I was recently in New Zealand which was 13 hours ahead of the time in the UK (where I live). 

I had roaming on, my Sansung S10e was showing the correct local time in NZ on its clock on the home screen and the file name of my photos and videos was correct. However, the photos and videos are placed in the wrong date in Gallery

As an example here's the info (when I swipe up in Gallery) of a photo I took at 12:37pm on 16th February 

LINE 1 - 15th February 2024 23:37

LINE 2 - 20240216_123528

So, the photo has the correct file name but 

its date and time stamp is showing the time it was in the UK when I took the photo and it's also showing in the 15th February folder in Gallery rather than the 16th.

I know I can manually edit the date but there are a lot of photos so is there :-

1. Something I can do to bulk change the incorrect date/time for all the photos on my phone or PC. 

2. Change something on my phone for future trips so it captures the correct local time wherever I am.

Thank You in advance😃 

[Neo001 · Accepted solution]

This is the expected behaviour. The filename gets the correct timestamp. The date/time (Line 1) will change based on the timezone you are in. If tomorrow,  you visit the US and check the date, it will show you a different date/time.

[ScoobySteve]

Thank you for confirming there's nothing I'm doing wrong.

[Tulacz]

Why would you consider it expected behavior? I do not want my picture of a sunrise to be at 2PM.  I want the true timestamp when the picture was taken. I want to marge the pictures with my other cameras and they are 9 hours off, so it messes entire process.  If I create a file on my laptop in US and come back to EU the timestamp will still be exactly the time I did it in US.  If I wanted to have the date / timestamp from Europe I would not allow my phone to switch to the US time zone. Please let me know how I can prevent my phone from doing things for me which I do not want.

[Gallery roaming]

I totally agree. My photos taken in Japan now have an Australian time & won't sync into order with those taken on our DSLR camera & iPhone. So annoying. Never had this problem with previous holidays & previous Samsung phones. Some new update which is totally unnecessary & annoying? Please fix it Samsung!

[Unshipped3779]

Love the idea of having the image saved with my local time or some kind of standard time for all the pictures and videos with the samsung camera and not needing another camera app that probably can't use the full functionality of the phone