Windows 10: External HDD time/date stamp is wrong in Win10, correct in Win8

I've been running into an unusual problem. I have an external hard drive that I use to store my photos. When I copy them to the disk, the time gets offset by -7 hours. So for example an image file created at 11am will show 4am on the external hard drive. However, when I check this same hard drive on an old Windows 8 laptop, it shows up correctly as 11am. Any idea what's happening here? Maybe it has something to do with the NTFS file system?

The photo/video files are created in a fairly barebones action cam (Mobius Maxi).

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Time correct but date often wrong

Just one more check, takes a few seconds of your time.

As the time zone, computer location and time & date settings can all be set independently, it's worts to check the default formats. Simply press WIN + R to open the Run dialog, type control intl.cpl and hit Enter to open the region module of Control Panel and check that both Short date and Long date formats match your preferred way to present the date:






If not, click Additional settings button and change them as you wish:




In Customize Format dialog you can either select a pre-defined format or edit them manually using following abbreviations:

• d = day of the month without leading zero
• dd = day of the month without leading zero
• dddd = day of the week
• MMM = three letter abbreviation for month (APR, AUG, DEC and so on)
• MMMM = full name of the month
• yy = year with two last digits
• yyyy = year with four digits
• You can also add separators as you wish (hyphen, slash, comma, period, colon and so on)

 

Time correct but date often wrong


This happens quite easily because UK and US are next to each other in the drop down menus. For example in setting Windows 10 location in settings:




When you open the drop down menu, UK is just before US:




A millimeter / fraction of an inch mouse movement when doing a selection and you might not notice you have selected wrong country.

This mistake might go unnoticed as long as the date is 12th or less; after 13th you already realize the format is wrong *Wink

 

How do I time stamp my photos with the date/time?

In which case, the third app I suggested, Stamp the Photo, should work- it literally *visibly* stamps the date and time the photo was taken (from the details) onto the photo itself.

Good luck!