In this guide, we will make you aware of the reason and a probable fix as to why photos or videos taken by Google Camera on Pixel devices have the wrong date and time. Thanks to its impressive computational photography and under-the-hood software tweaks, the devices from the Silicon Valley giant beholds some of the best cameras that any smartphone has to offer. However, users are witnessing a rather strange issue with the file naming convention.
According to them, the date/time displayed in the photo/video filenames is always ahead of the local time. To be more specific, all photos taken with this camera app save the filename in the UTC time zone instead of the time zone you live in. Screenshots and images taken via other camera apps don’t exhibit this behavior, so there’s something going on with Google Camera itself. So what exactly is happening? Let’s find out.
Wrong Date/Time on Photo taken by Google Camera on Pixel
The time and date are also stored in the EXIF metadata and are displayed correctly in local time. Technically using UTC will always result in the correct time a photo was taken even if you lose the location information (EXIF). And that is the reason for the entire fiasco. So if you are looking for the exact or rather the correct date/time, then open the concerned photo/video and head over to its information tab, from there you could get hold of the correct date/time information.
So on that note, we round off this explanatory guide as to why photos or videos taken by Google Camera on Pixel devices have the wrong date and time. If you still have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
