I am in the Edit Capture Time dialog box. Adjust to Specified Date is selected. In the Corrected Time field, I enter 199 and then we I hit 6 to make 1996 I get 199. The six does not show up. 1999 does not work either. I get 199 and then the last nine does not register. Other years work fine.
I have found that the year box is very fussy -- if you pause just a fraction of a second, any further typing will overwrite what came before. So try typing as fast as you can, with no pauses.
Thanks for the hint. I have tried that numerous times and only have found 1996 and 1999 to not work. I can type 9999 quickly but only three 9s register as 999. Same with 6666 shows as 666. Every other digit like 5 shows up as four digits - 5555. Very strange.
Strange indeed. You could try resetting LR's preferences: http://www.lightroomforums.net/showth.... Sprinkling that magic fairy dust fixes a surprising number of things when the user interface goes wonky.
I'm on 10.10.5 (Yosemite). When I type the year "1995", unless I type fast (and I'm a touch typist good with numbers), I typically end up with just the year "5".
Bug in "edit capture time": For whatever strange reason I cannot set the capture date of a photo to 7th September 1969. Neither by entering the year directly (only 196 is show) nor by using arrow up/down on the year. 1970, 1968, no problem. But no 1969 (1966 also not possible).
LR refuses to set any year before 2000. Once the bug is triggered, I was unable to set any more that one digit in the year. Even after I reverted to the Original Capture date the bug persists and I am unable to set any more than a one digit year.
I tried this for 1969 and the nine is not displayed (just 196) but decrementing moves to 1968 and incrementing to 1970 so I tried saving the "196" and it saved the time correctly as 1969...
What if you copy 1969 into the clipboard from another app and then paste it into the year field?
A number of people, including me, are getting hiccups with this, but the symptoms are all a little bit different. It would be good to provide Adobe with a reproducible recipe and a workaround, since experience shows that without that, they're less likely to work on a problem.
Copy & paste was one of the first things I tried but the clipboard does not appear to be available in the date edit panel.
I also tried without doing the incrementing and decrementing described above. It will correctly record 1969 as the chosen year (so long as you typed it correctly). It appears to be a display issue.
The issue is consistently reproduced now however I will say that the year entry has always been flakey in the past and in earlier versions of Lightroom.
What if you type 1969 very slowly, one digit per second?
On my OS X 10.10.5, I can type 1969 reliably, just as long as type fast. My symptoms are different -- if I type 1969 slowly, often only one digit displays (typically the last one). Then if I click OK, the change in year is ignored entirely.
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Bug in "edit capture time": For whatever strange reason I cannot set the capture date of a photo to 7th September 1969. Neither by entering the year directly (only 196 is show) nor by using arrow up/down on the year. 1970, 1968, no problem. But no 1969 (1966 also not possible).
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A number of people, including me, are getting hiccups with this, but the symptoms are all a little bit different. It would be good to provide Adobe with a reproducible recipe and a workaround, since experience shows that without that, they're less likely to work on a problem.
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I also tried without doing the incrementing and decrementing described above. It will correctly record 1969 as the chosen year (so long as you typed it correctly). It appears to be a display issue.
The issue is consistently reproduced now however I will say that the year entry has always been flakey in the past and in earlier versions of Lightroom.
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On my OS X 10.10.5, I can type 1969 reliably, just as long as type fast. My symptoms are different -- if I type 1969 slowly, often only one digit displays (typically the last one). Then if I click OK, the change in year is ignored entirely.
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