(0.23.0 Alpha) Google Photos Timezone

[nalsai]

When importing from Google Photos immich-go uses my local timezone since the json files don't include that information.
I would want it to try to get the timezone from the exif data of the image and fall back to using UTC if it can't find it in there. I have photos from many different timezones so using my local timezone is not possible and seperating them all manually would be a lot of work, especially because of daylight saving time.

In case you need an example file: This was shot at 2024-07-29 04:45 AM GMT+9 as seen in the exif data but gets imported as 2024-07-28 09:45 PM GMT+2 from Google Photos Takeout using the latest alpha (v0.23.0-alpha5) of immich-go.

[simulot]

Thank you for chasing the bugs with me! 😃

Immich does the right thing, I don't know exactly how:

Exiftool shows a "Date Time UTC" :

exiftool -time:all 384975057-c444dd2c-cc6d-4ab5-a2e6-6a91cf5dbf8a.jpg 
File Modification Date/Time     : 2024:11:11 16:37:56+01:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2024:11:11 16:37:59+01:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2024:11:11 16:37:56+01:00
Modify Date                     : 2024:07:29 04:45:07
Date/Time Original              : 2024:07:29 04:45:07
Create Date                     : 2024:07:29 04:45:07
Offset Time                     :    :
Offset Time Original            :    :
Offset Time Digitized           :    :
Date Time UTC                   : 2024:07:28 19:47:07

This value is buried in Olympus specific part of the Exif data, accessible with exif tool.

This alpha version of immich-go can leverage exiftool for retrieving exif data with the flag --exiftool-enabled.

I have modified my code to use the Olympus specific exif tag. --exiftool-enabled catches now the correct time, and it should be displayed correctly on your system.

I don't know when I'll release the next version. But I can share it directly with you.
Let me know what machine architecture you are using? (windows / mac / linux).

[nalsai]

Thank you for the quick response, I'm using Linux

[simulot]

This is probably linked to the #533 issue.
Could you share the JSON file linked to this photo?
I'd like to verify if the fix for #353 works also in that case.

[nalsai]

Here's a zip file with the image and its json file
YGT17107.zip

[simulot]

Thank, it works too:

date
Thu Nov 14 05:01:25 AM JST 2024
 ./immich-go upload from-google-photos -s=http://localhost:2283 -k=XXXXXX YGT17107.zip

[simulot]

Fixed with v0.23.RC