Latest Movies Australian Dates Issue

[Mitch&Tay 1]

I am having an issue where newly added content isnlt displaying in the "Lastest" section on the home screen. I realise that Emby uses the creation dates of the files to determine what is "latest". After some research and experiments, I have dtermined that the issue is caused by the Dateing system in Australia compared to the US. Here is how I figured it out

I went into Metadata manager to determine what the creation dates where for the most recent added movies which was 20/08/2020, which is 20th of August 2020. I then check the creation dates on the movies that were listed in "Lastes Movies" and all of them were created 08/04/2020 which is 8th April 2020 here is Austalia. So because the dating system has the month and day swapped in USA, Emby determines the incorrect files are the "Latest Movies"

My question is, how do I remedy this? Any idea's or help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Edited August 20, 2020 by Mitch&Tay

[Luke 42083]

HI, is your system datetime format set for US or for Australian? That might be impacting this. We don't really have a built-in way for you to handle it. 

[Mitch&Tay 1]

/Hey, when you say system, I assume you mean Windows not Emby? My windows system is set to Aus not US. But my server is running on my NAS, I wonder if I change the date system on it, it would remedy the issue?

Edited August 21, 2020 by Mitch&Tay

[Carlo 4561]

It's worth a try.  Should be easy to set back.

Can you let us know what you find if you try this?

[Mitch&Tay 1]

Okay, so after a long period of frustration, I believe that I have fixed the problem.

To be clear, I use MCM. I parse all of my files from my PC to my NAS using MCM.

As stated earlier the issue is with how Emby reads the scanned in/file creation dates. Australian dates read dd/mm/yyyy and US dates read mm/dd/yyyy.

So as my PC/Widows and NAS is set up for Aus, when it creates a file it usues dd/mm format. So Emby wasn't recognising the correct dates. 

So I changed my PC/Windows and NAS dates to mm/dd (easy and not a big deal), refreshed the metadata, parsed a few new movies and did a full library scan, but it still didn't fix the problem. Newly added files were not showing up the the "Lastest" list, even though the added dates were now reading correctly (mm/dd) in the metadata.

After a lot of playing around with the metadata I realised that any file I added on the 9-12th day of the month 2020 was reading as December 2020, so anything new I added was technically "older" as the content showing was future dated. I quickly editded all of the 9-12th month 2020 (future dated) metadata back to 01/xx/2020 and I think this has FINALLY fixed the issue (runnning a library scan now).

I hope this makes sense haha, and I hope it helps any fellow Auzzies who may be experiancing the same issue with Latest Media.

[Mitch&Tay 1]

7 hours ago, cayars said:

It's worth a try.  Should be easy to set back.

Can you let us know what you find if you try this?

I fixed it, it WORKED haha. You have to manually change every future dated file TV Show or Movie, but it fixed the problem.

 

58 minutes ago, Mitch&Tay said:

Okay, so after a long period of frustration, I believe that I have fixed the problem.

To be clear, I use MCM. I parse all of my files from my PC to my NAS using MCM.

As stated earlier the issue is with how Emby reads the scanned in/file creation dates. Australian dates read dd/mm/yyyy and US dates read mm/dd/yyyy.

So as my PC/Widows and NAS is set up for Aus, when it creates a file it usues dd/mm format. So Emby wasn't recognising the correct dates. 

So I changed my PC/Windows and NAS dates to mm/dd (easy and not a big deal), refreshed the metadata, parsed a few new movies and did a full library scan, but it still didn't fix the problem. Newly added files were not showing up the the "Lastest" list, even though the added dates were now reading correctly (mm/dd) in the metadata.

After a lot of playing around with the metadata I realised that any file I added on the 9-12th day of the month 2020 was reading as December 2020, so anything new I added was technically "older" as the content showing was future dated. I quickly editded all of the 9-12th month 2020 (future dated) metadata back to 01/xx/2020 and I think this has FINALLY fixed the issue (runnning a library scan now).

I hope this makes sense haha, and I hope it helps any fellow Auzzies who may be experiancing the same issue with Latest Media.

 

[Luke 42083]

Thanks for the feedback.

[seanbuff 1318]

12 hours ago, Mitch&Tay said:

To be clear, I use MCM. I parse all of my files from my PC to my NAS using MCM

As a fellow Aussie who does not have this issue with date formats, what is the reason you are using MCM? Is it providing something that Emby cannot do for you automatically?

The only thing I have changed is the display language to English (UK) so that dates are displayed correctly in the Web UI

But I have never had to change any dates on my media for them to show up in 'Latest'