EOS R6 Mark II & Canon Camera Connect: Time and Location Data Discrepancies

[carl_schnurr]

Location shows places I visited at a different time that day.

I have an R6 Mark II since late 2024.  When possible, I use the Canon Camera Connect App to tag the photos with location data.  I've noticed that the location data is incorrect and indicates a location I was at some other time that day.

I have since noticed that when playing back images, the 'Shooting Date and Time' in the top right of the screen indicates the correct time, but the UTC time is incorrect.

The Date/Time settings (including Daylight Savings setting) on my camera, phone, Computer EOS Utility all exactly match each other.  I live in Eastern Std Time Zone, with Daylight Savings Time.  This should provide a UTC time +4hrs ahead of my local time.  But my photo data has  UTC times are all over the map.  I haven't formatted my memory since I bought my camera, and the discrepancies are evident on all photos since I purchased the camera in late 2024.  For example; I looked at image data from the past week all taken with my RF100-500 lens.  I have several images with Shooting Times:

-04/18/2025, 16:39:47 thru 18:07:41 all with the same UTC time 20:43:36; and 
-04/21/2025, 19:14:57 thru 19:25:14 , all with the same UTC time 22:46:10.

Could someone explain these times to me? 
Could this discrepancy cause my geolocation data from Canon Camera Connect to be out of synch in time?

[John_Q]

Hello carl_schnurr,

There are some things to try to verify to identify what's happening there. The smartphone can acquire location information only while it is paired with the camera via Bluetooth. That acquired location information may not be accurate depending on traveling conditions or smartphone status. Location information is also no longer acquired after any of the following operations.

• Turning the camera off
• Quitting Camera Connect
• Deactivating location services on the smartphone
• The Bluetooth connection is ended
• The smartphone's remaining battery level is low

You may also want to review your Date/Time/Zone settings on the camera. You can adjust the [Zone/Time  difference] setting based on your travels prior to shooting.

[TomRamsey · Accepted solution]

I have noticed a couple of times that I may get locations of somewhere that I was earlier.  I think what may have happened was the phone GOS went to sleep.  I have learned to always check when starting at a new location.  I have an iphone, Location Services (in the settings of the iphone) must be active for Camera Connect to access the GPS.  I hust changed mine to "always" instead of "when using".  I think you could laso get corrupted data from not formatting your card, but O don't think you have got that, I've never heard of corrupt files with anything but rruined photos.

[carl_schnurr]

Thanks Tom and John.  I think the most likely cause is that my phone went to sleep and the last known location was imprinted onto the image.  I'll have to do more focused testing to nail this down.