Windows 10: Win 10 Photo App Collections has incorrect date format

Default date inside Win 10 photo app is backwards. Photo app Collections where all photos are shows month of May 2021 and below that 01/05 - 30/05 instead of 05/01-05/30 USA date style. PC date is correct format. How to change Photo App to correct date format?

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Photos app dates

In the windows photo app is there a way to manually change the dates of photos imported? Changing the date settings on devices does not help, all the photos I import are listed with wrong dates by several years. Very frustrating!

I understand that the device I am importing photos from is probably to blame for the incorrect date, what I am looking for is a way to correct this manually from within the app itself.

My photo collection is now chaos and I am forced to keep a mud map on paper of when the photos were actually taken, in the hope of finding a way to correct this here.

Please help! thanks.

 

Seeing incorrect photo dates in Photos app

Hi christopherfagan,

As a first step in investigating this further, I'd like to take a closer look at one of the files that this is happening to. Can you reply back with a screenshot of the file info? I've provided steps below for how to capture the information for us.

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  Open File Explorer (Start > File Explorer)
  
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  In the navigation bar, type “Libraries\Pictures” without the quotations.
  
  
  
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  Search for the filename of one of the images that has the incorrect date.
  
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  Right-click on the columns (Name, Date), and ensure that the Date, Date taken, and Date created columns are checked
  
  
  
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  Take a screenshot of the result with the Date, Date taken, and Date created columns visible. It should look like this:
  
  
  
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  Also check the File Properties of the image
  
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    Right-click the image and select Properties.
    
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    Switch to the Details tab.
    
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    Let us know the Date taken, Date created, and Date modified.
    

 

Windows 10 Date Format

Hi,

Yep, I have done that, but ALL my files, documents etc; are now showing in the American format so appear in the incorrect date sequence in my folders.