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My latest submission just passed and I noticed that the "Date Taken" field is filled in with random dates, always with an earlier year. The incorrect date carries over to search results. Having that field auto-filled was a great convenience and having to correct it an unwelcome chore. Anyone else having this issue?

My payment date has moved 3 times...1st, 2nd and now 3rd September...is it just because of the weekend? Would expect this to be all automated... Anyone suffering this?

My payment date has moved 3 times...1st, 2nd and now 3rd September...is it just because of the weekend? Would expect this to be all automated... Anyone suffering this? Please ignore... duplication

In case anyone else hasn't noticed, the uploaded images don't seem to pick up the `date taken' from the metadata. You have to input it manually (optional)

Having problems with the date taken field in the new IM. With the old system I normally only entered the year for date taken. These still show up correctly in search results for "legacy images" & as January 1st in the IM. However, I can see no way to just enter the year for new submissions, also seems impossible to remove a date once entered. I would have thought this should be any easy problem to fix... In the meantime, any ideas on a workaround?

Hello, everyone! I am new to Alamy and have enjoyed viewing others work on the site. My question relates to the EXIF data on the first batch of photos that I had uploaded. My camera evidently reverted back to an early date when I removed the battery and I did not notice until after the photos were uploaded and passed QC. The date is relevant due to the content of the photos. I changed the date in the description on the Alamy site, but here is my question -- should I delete and reupload the photos with a corrected EXIF date? I am going to correct it in the originals anyway.

My latest batch (the first since April) has come through with the Date taken fields filled in with the upload date. I've checked the files I sent and they are all date-stamped as normal. Other data has come through as normal. Tedious as at the very least I have to reduce them all to "Year only" or fill in correct date. I certainly don't want them posted with an incorrect date even it is of little relevance to purchasers. Has anyone else noticed this ?

This morning I was doing some research. I wanted to see if anybody else on Alamy had uploaded photos of the new Exploratorium (sort of a kid oriented science museum) in San Francisco. It just moved and has been open in the new location for about a month or so. I uploaded a few a couple weeks ago. I was surprised to see only one photo, not mine when I searched Exploratorium by taken in the *last three months.* So I went in to Alamy manage images 2.4 and took a look at the date. I assumed that there would be no date at all in the field but instead it listed 19.09.2012. The actual date, as shown in the same images uploaded to Flickr and Zenfolio show taken on 02.05.2013. Of course I *know* my dates aren't that jacked up, since I also geotagged that same set and have to sync the images with my location history from Google Latitude. Also I on occasion have to sync my camera clock with a coworker so our images list in the proper order for events. Plus the Alamy dates are jacked up on both my Sony NEX and Canon 5d MKII images. And it's easy for me to reference since all my photos are named with the date as part of my Lightroom workflow (YearMonthDay_serialno.) Further research showed that dates on Alamy appear incorrect just from images uploaded this year, but that's just from some random sampling. Guess I should send this straight to Alamy? Seems like a major problem. I was just trying to search like a photo buyer would. If I were writing a story on the new Exploratorium, I'd search by date. But by the Alamy dates, a buyer would assume that my photos were taken in the old location. Anybody else having this problem. What should I do?