Am I missing something, or is there no option for Photo AI to maintain the original image time/date stamp on export? I could have sworn that was a feature at some point, but I’ve looked over all the settings and can’t find anything. It’s very important to me to not have to fiddle with time/date stamps after Photo AI does an edit as it’s time consuming.
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Are you sure because all of my exported images show the correct Date/Time Taken. You haven’t even mentioned your PC OS but on Windows there is no issue. E.G. on the details panel under Properties and will show if you hover your mouse over the image:
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I’m on macOS. I did a test this morning to confirm the behaviour: the original image was taken on Sept 17th, and after going to through Photo AI with a 2x upscale and save, it has a time/date stamp of today, Oct 3rd.
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Photo AI will show the date of export as that’s a different image file from the original.
Indeed, it does, but my request is that it should preserve the date, or at the very least give the user an option to preserve it.
Here’s why: most image viewing apps, sites and services sort by date. If I’m using PhotoAI to edit an image from a month ago, and then I export that image as part of a larger set (like I do with Lightroom), having the PhotoAI images have the date of the image edited vs. the timestamp of the original image, means it shows up in the wrong order. It means the album in Google Photos has the wrong date. I need to fire up timestamp changing software and tweak the data of every single image, and that’s a pain.
I believe it’s fundamentally the wrong thing to do to alter the date stamps of the images; they should be carried through.
Here’s how Squash 3 presents the option to the user to protect the date of the original image. 
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Thanks for clarifying. I can see how this could help if you have several large batches or folders from different photoshoots that are going to different end locations.
I am having this problem as well. I just processed all my RAW images from an Antarctica trip. I now want to combine them with selected JPEGS and cull them for final processing. I thought they would line up by date so I could select the best image, but all my Topaz files have a new time stamp after the trip. It’s going to take a lot extra time to figure it out manually.
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@jeffrey.wrightson You may be able to save yourself some hassle and time by using A Better Finder Attributes 7 (if you’re on macOS). Assuming Photo AI doesn’t strip the EXIF metadata of when it was shot, you can bulk re-write the created/modified dates back to the original values.
On Windows, EXIF Date Changer Pro also allows to set Date Created / Date Modified back to Date Taken (or to DateTime in a file name).
It’s wonderful, very flexible and cheap program. I don’t know if it works on Mac too.
But it’s an additional hassle. Why couldn’t otherwise excellent Topaz Photo AI build in an option of leaving Date Modified intact?
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Indeed, it’s quite a puzzle. Unless Topaz thinks that we all shoot images and edit them the same day. 
