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when adding images to a docx or odt file type they are stored in the xml as images dated 1899.
why is this?
to replicate:
create any Office document, Word, Excel or PowerPoint
copy a image or image crop from another application like MS Paint
paste into document
save & close application
copy resulting file and rename extension of file to zip
open zip
explore zip content for folder named 'media'
open 'media' folder and note list of images and the date modified.
The above also applies to an image 'inserted' into the document.
applies to Office 2010 and Office 2013
Mike B
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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My guess would be that a pasted image does not bring with it any date data, and 1899 is the default date Word uses when it doesn't know the date. However, if you're getting the same results when inserting saved images using Insert | Illustrations | Pictures, then perhaps the image date is just something Word doesn't store.