Comments on: Bridge to Nowhere…

By: Jim Magowan

Jim Magowan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:27:13 +0000

Take a tip from aviation. One way to overcome the problem is to use CUT (Coordinated Universal Time, AKA Zulu or Greenwich Time). Local time for any zone is computed by subtracting the difference (a constant) from CUT. For example Alaska Standard Time is ZULU -9 and ADT is ZULU -10. CUT is 24 hour time. If the camera does not provide for a 24 hour setting use 12:00 midnight as 00:00 CUT.

Using CUT eliminates the need to change time when changing zones so if your camera records location you can sort by location and time.

If you don’t want to bother with CUT an alternative is to set all cameras to your local time and keep that setting. You are unlikely to take two images at the same time in different time zones so you can sort by local time and use the difference from your local time as the correction constant. I also recommend not changing the time setting for DST (one less thing to remember).

By: Angela Lamb

Angela Lamb — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:31:49 +0000

How do I sort in Adobe Bridge by time. I am new to Bridge and would greatly appreciated a stp by step in how to do this. I did a wedding last weekend with 3 photographers and 5 cameras and as you can imagine without knowing how to fuse these files together by time created it will be a mess. Thank you in advance for the input.

By: Bryn

Bryn — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:24:37 +0000

Unfortunately the last prerelease build of bridge that I saw only had sort by date created and date modified

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:55:47 +0000

I’ve run into this same exact problem with bridge. My solution? Use Lightroom. In fact I don’t use BR or PS for much of anything anymore. Nonetheless, LR’s time zone adjust tool has saved my butt more than once… and it (so far) has worked flawlessly for me.

By: Paul Pokrywka

Paul Pokrywka — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:11:45 +0000

Is you problem corrected in CS4 version of Bridge?

By: Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:33:33 +0000

Of course you are right, and I hope Adobe is listening, but this will help you get out of a bind…

By: Tim Grey

Tim Grey — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:52:41 +0000

I am familiar with those tools indeed. But that doesn’t excuse Adobe Bridge for not being able to sort images by EXIF capture time!

By: Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:49:39 +0000

I assume that you are aware of the many tools out there that will allow you to change the file date and time, including some that will read the EXIF date and apply that to the file date.

I recently needed a command line tool to do that and downloaded something called EXIFtools. It worked great but I’m sure that there are Windows and Mac GUI based tools available as well that will do the same thing.

I think that EXIFtools even allows you to change both the EXIF date and the file date at the same time so you can do it in one step…