Samsung Galaxy S8 photo stamp dates

ozeebee on 20/10/2017 - 17:40

Hi all,

I've got a Galaxy S8 Plus. For a while now, I notice that some of the photos on my Gallery suddenly changed it's date to 19 Jan 2038. No idea how this is happening.

Anyone else getting this issue? Does anyone know why this is happening?

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Comments

  • JimmyF on 20/10/2017 - 18:23

    Did you teleport into the future for a bit?

    • ozeebee on 20/10/2017 - 22:54

      I may have travelled to the future and taken some photos.

  • dickiee on 20/10/2017 - 20:41

    Marty?…….Doc?…….

    • ozeebee on 20/10/2017 - 22:54

      Personally not a fan of Delorean's though.

  • ausdday on 21/10/2017 - 00:02

    The time stamp means the last second of current 32bit epoch time. Current 32bit linux epoch time will overflow on 19 Jan 2038.

    • ozeebee on 21/10/2017 - 08:08

      Do you have any idea why some of my photos are future dating themselves?

  • pretz92 on 21/10/2017 - 14:54
    +1

    According to here.. its a common problem and you can disable tag location in Samsung Camera App as a temporary fix. Also you can download QuickPic and use the fix date function in settings of this app to fix dates of old photos that have been taken (hopefully)

  • Masterpupil on 21/10/2017 - 20:15

    I had this happen to some of my photos but couldn't be bothered doing anything about it. Seems to have affected about 4 photos taken at a wedding in August.

    • ozeebee on 22/10/2017 - 00:58

      It started with a few then over time more and more gets this new date stamp. So all new photos you just took, you'll then need to scroll down because the future dates photos are all on top.

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