2015-10-10T21:02:00Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/samsumg-galaxy-s5-video-camera-time-stamp-errortag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1421/48322015-10-10T21:02:00ZDavid July<p>Programmatically working with dates and times can be a complicated and frustrating endeavor, at least for me (and the scores of people posting questions on Stack Overflow). One convention for dealing with these complexities is to use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in code, but provide options for local differentials. The local time is then calculated from UTC.</p> <p>That does not always solve all problems, though. I am currently working to fix a bug on a system that has local differential options. All times are calculated from UTC and timestamp fields use the correct &quot;2015-10-10T16:29:34&quot; format. It works great except that one timestamp originates from another system using the same format, but with the time in Eastern. Thus, my system is subtracting four hours and showing an incorrect time.</p> <p>None of this really addresses your issue, but does perhaps illustrate how strange timestamp anomalies can occur. You raise some good questions. Why do videos apparently use a different function than photographs to calculate time zones? Why is Eastern time cached somewhere on your device when the network time is clearly available, correct and otherwise used? Really, if you had said that your video timestamps were in UTC this would make a lot more sense.</p> <p>Sorry that I cannot help any despite the verbose response.</p>