Export filename uses current date and time rather than EXIF creation date and time

[heisenberg192]

What happened?

I edited 10 CR2 files and exported them to a resized JPG with a naming template of {YYYY}{MM}{DD}-{hh}{mm}-{sequence}-cologne and all year, month, day, hour and minute information was the same for all files and matched the time the export started. The sequence number incremented as expected.

What did you expect to happen?

I expected each file to be named with its' EXIF creation date and time

How can we reproduce this?

Edit files
Go to Export via the save icon at the bottom right
Change the file naming template to {YYYY}{MM}{DD}-{hh}{mm}-{sequence}-cologne
Change the resize to fit to 2048 on the long edge
Unselect remove GPS data (I want to keep it)
Click export

Operating System

Other Linux

RapidRAW Version

1.4.7

Additional information

Exporting without resizing has the same issue. I see now that the problem also existed in v1.4.5. Removing the sequence number from the template generates an automatic sequence number at the end presumably to prevent overwriting.

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[CyberTimon]

Can you confirm that you are able to see the correct EXIF metadata for the images in the metadata panel?

I'm not able to reproduce your problem.

[heisenberg192]

I can see all three "Date Time" metadata items but they are not presented together in the same way as the above screenshot, the other two are further down.

To sanity check I repeated an export today (7-Jan-2026) with the default settings and the date used was 31-Dec-2025! Checking the file properties from file manager suggests this is the creation date.

I'm running on Fedora 43 btw and all images are retrieved and saved locally.

Update:
I tried the same on Debian 13 and the display of the DateTime parameters is the same as your screenshot i.e. all together but the problem remains although the date used is the date of export.