I just add photo library (photos from phone) to my plex, and few photos are dated as 1 jan 1900.
In exif everything is ok. In xml there no such date as 1 jan 1900.
so, where does plex get this info??
i noticed that there was similar question asked already in nov '17, but without solution.
So im hoping that has been solved by now…
I’m having the same problem. I’ve uploaded several thousand vacation photos taken with a variety of cellphones and digital cameras. The “Captured Time” shown for each photo in Plex is correct. However, the timeline lumps most of them under “Jan 1, 1900” and I can’t figure out why. A small number are sorted correctly, but I haven’t yet figured out what distinguishes those from the others. PMS has finished scanning the library. Maybe it will straighten it out with some more time?
I’m using version 1.18.0.1913 on a Synology with a Plex Pass account.
so, any advice from plex tech?
where can i get direct plex support? there is no contact anywhere…
If either of you could provide a sample image or two that would help. Just add the image(s) to a zip file first and either post it here or send me a private message with the sample.
Thanks!
Also happened to me when I added a folder to the library yesterday. Sent you a PM with one of the images. I even plex danced the folder with no difference in in the result.
Yeah, no problem… i belive the problem is because photos are taken from cloud service… i use pcloud, if i copy these tree photos to dropbox, idrive, dates are ok…
edit1: thats not the case… i copy all photos to other cloud service on hard drive, same problem. Could it be the number of photos, that are added to library at the same time? i have added around 280 photos at once.
Edit2: could be the number of photos. i crated another library, same cloud provider, add 4 photos and dates are ok… Could you @Coxeroni try it and confirm?
Samsung SM-G950F.rar (8.6 MB)
1 Jan. 1900 is the stock response from Plex when it doesn’t know what to do.
Personally, I’d rather it put the current date (as would about a million other Plex Users), but so far that hasn’t happened.
yeah, i guess it is a default response.
but i would like know why. What is wrong, that it doesnt know what to do…
Probably, Metadata missing or incorrectly listed
For me, it have been caused by me aborting the scanner when it was scanning the images yesterday. Still, if I plex-dance them, the incorrect time stamp stays which is a bit annoying.
Edit: I added them to a new library, and there their are first indexed as 01. Jan 1900 and then slowly the images are moved to the correct date. So it would be great to do this on an existing library, I am not keen on deleting my existing one, although this can be done if there is no other solution.
Edit 2: Resolved it, dunno how exactly. What I did was making a copy of that respective photo folder (for the test library) than deleted the photos form the file system through Plex and moved the folder back into my photo library folder. Scan for new files and voilà, time stamp is correct.
how do you delete photos from system through Plex? are all photos ok?
i also did move photos, and now photos that was previeusly wrong, are now ok, but there are others that are not ok… they are somewhere in the middle of all photos…
I selected all the 1900 ones → three dots in the upper right corner → delete
Before that, I made a copy so they are not lost 
hm… i cant even delete photo from plex… should check the settings
Yeah you have to allow that -> settings -> Library.
yeah… that doesnt work for me… tried as you described…
Too bad… As I said I don’t know what did the trick for me in the end.
yap…
i noticed that this bug works very random. I have create/delete multiple library with that photos…
And in 1 jan 1900 arent always the same photos and videos. In one try, few photos was named as 7 oct 2019, but photos wasnt taken that day… then i deleted library, refresh all metadata, empty trash, recreate library, and there was again this 1 jan 1900…
plex staff - what do you think?
Same issue here, I’ve done a few Plex dances, that doesn’t seem to fix it. Also tried adding a new photo today, these are from yesterday. I thought I noticed it "fixing’ it after the date has passed but the second test of that proved untrue.
I’m using version 1.18.0.1913 on a Synology with a Plex Pass account.
Two images for you to test with, the links will expire in 30 days from today.
What Plex Shows:
Edit Details of “Santa” pic:
(FYI: I’m the same person as “ClarkTech2” above. I just wasn’t logged into the correct account when I posted last time.)
Unfortunately, the problem persists after giving the server a few days to sort things out. Also, I’ve updated to 1.18.0.1944, but that didn’t correct it either.
@drzoidberg33 Attached are two examples: one that is shown in the Timeline under the correct date (IMG_20190629_105310.jpg) and one that is not (IMG_20190628_221825.jpg). These were taken with the same camera one day apart. I hope it help figure out the problem. Please let me know if you would like more examples.
Example Photos.zip (5.7 MB)
A few oddities I’ve noticed: The “Jan 1, 1900” date is actually listed twice in the timeline. Under the first heading is a batch of 15 photos from the first day of our trip. I uploaded these at one time as a test. The remaining ~6,000 photos from that trip were uploaded the same day in several larger batches. Most show up under a second “Jan 1, 1900” heading. There are two exceptions: The photos from one day in the middle of our trip show up under the correct date, but that date is also duplicated with one photo listed separately from the rest. The second exception is for photos taken one one day with a separate camera that had the date set incorrectly to 1/8/2017. Those show up “correctly” under 1/8/2017.
These photos were taken with two different cell phones and two different brands of digital camera. They are are sorted into folders by day and then subfolders by which camera they were taken with. Windows Explorer was used to copy them from a folder on my PC to a mapped PMS folder on my Synology server.
Upgraded to: Version 1.18.0.1944
No change in behavior. Any updates on this yet? @drzoidberg33 or anyone else from the plex team?
