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>>bewal4+(OP)
> Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, where XXXX is a unique sequence number.

For what it's worth, Apple are just conforming to the JEITA/CIPA DCF standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...

“DCF file names” specification sez… http://www.kronometric.org/phot/std/DC-009-2010_E.pdf#page=2...

“File names conforming to the following rules are called DCF file names.

• The file name is 8 characters (not including the file extension).

• The first four characters consist only of the upper-case alphanumeric characters shown in Table 1

• These are referred to as the DCF file name Free characters. They shall not contain two-byte characters or special codes.

• The four characters that follow are a number between "0001" and "9999". "0000" shall not be used. These four digits are referred to as File number.

• Files with the same file number stored in the same DCF directory are considered to be object component files as defined in 4.3.2.”

>>Lammy+Zs
It's really cool that such standard exists, the worst thing about Pixel phones is stupid filenames of pictures and videos, not only it's not following this standard, but contains WRONG timestamp. For example, picture with name `PLX_20241101_115855.jpg` was taken at 12:58:55, not 11 as the name suggests, but also picture with name `PLX_20240913_191525.jpg` was taken at 19:15:25. A video on the other hand would have a timestamp offset -1, the offset changes depending on time of the year and it's different for pictures and videos. It's annoying af, because pictures and videos in the same folder will not be sorted chronologically by filename.

>>agilob+aI
FWIW that is not a Pixel-specific issue. I encountered this on other cameras (IIRC Olympus and GoPro) as well. It's maddening.

The issue stems from the fact that images are written with proper EXIF time and timezone metadata while videos from the same camera might only store a timestamp field. Whether that's local time, UTC, or something else depends on the camera and how you configured it.