Photos Smart Album date range criterion changed on its own after time zone change

That is very interesting. I tried to reproduce the problem, but my smart albums do not change the date range, when I change the times. I tried with a rule "Date added is in the range..." as well as with "Date captured is in the range ...".

Could you please add more details so we can try exactly what you have done (without having to travel to Greece)?

• Which system version do you have installed?
• Did you create the album while you were in Greece with the clock and the timezone and the location set to Greece?
• Has it been this year or perhaps last year during a leap year?
• Does the smart album change back to the correct date range, when you set the location and time back to Athens in the system settings and restart your Mac?

I'll make further experiments. But please report this bug directly to Apple, so the developer team will see it. You can use the feedback form Feedback - Photos - Apple

Dorejd wrote: …a criterion shouldn't change just because the system's time changed.

Wow! I'm not so sure the "criterion" changed.

If My daughter takes a picture at 11 PM on April 30 in Dallas, and I take a picture in London at 1 am May 1 (which would be 8pm April 30 in Dallas,) which picture should appear first? What should "Date Captured after May mean?" When I lived in London, this was an interesting question!

If I look at a collection of both sets of pictures, then I might want the reference to be my own local time. But when I look at only the London pictures, I'd like pictures I take in the afternoon not appear with a morning time, no matter where I view them.

This even depends on how you register the time in the device. If you keep the "Time Zone" the same, but just change the time, you get different results.

I think the "criterion" is not at all simple, and Time Zones always seem to present a problem. Perhaps it should be a preference someplace, but different apps, and even different uses with the same app, may be expected to use different criteria.

It seems way easier just to change the date in the Smart Album!

Just thinkin'.

Dorejd wrote: … The criterion DID change.

What I meant when I said that "I'm not so sure the 'criterion' changed," is that your understanding of the meaning of that form of time and date was not necessarily the same as Photos' "understanding" of that form of the time and date. July 22 at 2 AM doesn't mean the same thing to everyone, because the time zone is not explicitly expressed.