If the client has any filesystem metadata information about the time of a file it'll pass that to the server. However, those aren't actually persisted to a sidecar file (but written to the database), even if the file does not actually have any proper EXIF information. This results in Immich showing metadata the original file does not have, which is confusing.
Thus, that time should ideally be written to EXIF in a sidecar file to ensure the metadata between database and files on disk matches.
The bug
If the client has any filesystem metadata information about the time of a file it'll pass that to the server. However, those aren't actually persisted to a sidecar file (but written to the database), even if the file does not actually have any proper EXIF information. This results in Immich showing metadata the original file does not have, which is confusing.
Thus, that time should ideally be written to EXIF in a sidecar file to ensure the metadata between database and files on disk matches.
The OS that Immich Server is running on
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Version of Immich Server
v1.120.2
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