Copied timestamp does not copy timezone

[daniel-zeng]

I copied a number of files from my Android (Huawei P40 Pro) to my mac (M1 Max 10/32), using the non-M1 version (3.1.15).

Upon inspecting the "Date Modified" fields, it seems like the copied timestamp copies the correct time, but misses out on the correct timezone.

For example, if I have test.jpg copied to mac,

date -uR -r test.jpg gives me:
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 04:32:37 +0000

but what I expected was
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 04:32:37 -0700

Let me know if you were able to reproduce this or need clarification. Thank you!

[ganeshrvel]

i shall look into this

[daniel-zeng]

Thanks!

[ganeshrvel]

@daniel-zeng I am aware of the Dates and the other metadata preservation issue. I am looking into it as well.

[daniel-zeng]

Appreciate the efforts!

[ganeshrvel]

For those who need a quick patch to correct the creation and modification date/time for their videos/images transferred to macbook via OpenMTP, you may run this script.

It will read the exif information of images or videos and update the creation and modification date/time of those file.

This should fix the wrongly sorted (by date) images and videos in your file manager or the photos app.

WARNING: BACKUP your files before running this script.

Note:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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Instructions in the README file:
https://github.com/ganeshrvel/openmtp-update-files-to-system-time

[daniel-zeng]

Great, thanks for the update! Looking forward to seeing this reflected in the main app, and thanks for your efforts 🥂

[serpaulius]

Hey all, it seems like Legacy driver does not have this problem, so that would be also a possible workaround 🤔 Though I just used this app for 10 minutes, I may not know the drawbacks of Legacy driver 😅