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Originally Posted by JohnCenne
I am running Calibre 3.14, add new books on the PC and then copy them to the SdCard of my Samsung A5 (2016).
The date on the device is always set to 1 Jan 1970.
I copy my ebooks to the device by dragging the bookname on the library page to the CardA button on the toolbar
When I look on the device page in Calibre, the Date field (and I presume this is the date added, because there are no details) is always set to 1 Jan 1970. On the Library page the date is correct.
On Windows File Explorer, the date created and modified for these eBooks on the Device are correct.
Can I do something?
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I have noticed this same thing too but I have not exercised my brain much about it
. As you say dates are correct on device but stated incorrectly in Calibre.
I have not troubled myself much about it as my reading app works correctly for date sorting, except to think it is possibly just a simple error in Calibre's handling of the date returned from Android devices - I think Calibre may be a factor of a 1000 out (one way or the other) being confused between milliseconds and seconds.
Possibly working in Epoch time which is in seconds instead of in required milliseconds (if I have that the right way around)? But it is entirely possible that my offhand thought about this is incorrect.
EDIT: when I have a moment I may have a little play with Epoch date and factor of 1000 in Excel and see what happens. Later - Whoops, not as easy as I thought without other work so will leave to Kovid to comment on if I am on the right track.