Imatch adds 1 hour to date subject created

[Joakimst]

I discovered today that Imatch have started to add one hour to the "date subject created" when I write metadata to a file, for example if I add a keyword and then hit the write metadata button.

Imatch does not add an hour every time I write metadate to the file, just the first time.

It seems Imatch thinks the timezone needs to be updated because what happens is that the actual time is still correct but Imatch have added +01:00 to the original time.

I discovered this because my sorting of files in the file window became wrong when I sort by capture time.

The time setting in "Create Date" is however still correct.

The "Modified date" though has a added time of 2 hours to the actual time when the file was modified - see printscreen.

FYI, this was the first time I've written data to a file in Imatch since march 28th (when the clock was set to summer time in europe).

[Mario]

Check Edit > Preferences > Metadata 2: XMP Import > Apply Time Zone.

[Joakimst]

Thanks! When I set "Apply time-zone" to "No" it worked.

[Mario]

The internal timestamp IMatch uses (since version 3!) has no possibility for a time-zone (technical reasons).
IMatch can either take the EXIF data (or whatever timestamp used for the format) 'as-is' or apply time-zone information (from EXIF, if available, or other equivalent info in the metadata).
One user has requested (in the feature request board) to make this flexible, allowing the user to input the time-zone offset to use. If you like this idea, +1 the feature request.