Editing Capture Time in Lightroom

When taking photos in a different time zone, I usually adjust the capture time during post-processing in Lightroom, rather than directly adjusting the time and date on my camera. This is easily accomplished by going to Metadata -> Edit Capture Time, and choosing the second option in the window that pops up, “Shift by set number of hours (time zone adjust)”.

But about three weeks into my stay in Taiwan, I realized that the time on my Olympus C-5060 was completely wrong, being off by some 15 hours and 40 minutes, rather than the normal 16 hour time difference. Edit Capture Time didn’t seem to offer such fine tuning, only allowing the user to change all photos to one specific time, or by a set number of hours. It turns out that the “Adjust to a specified date and time” option is a bit misleading, and is, in fact, what I was looking for. When selecting multiple photos, the time you see in the Edit Capture Time tool is of the one photo that is the focus of that selection. When you change the time of this photo, all other photos in the selection have their capture time shifted appropriately, and are not all set to the same time as one is led to believe.