Digikam Bug: Image Created Date changes when writing metadata to file

Software digiKam
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Using Digikam 8.3.0 on Windows.
My usual setting is to write metadata (ratings and tags) only to xmp sidecar files. Sometimes I want to write the tags and ratings into my jpeg files.
For this I change the bevavior to write to sidecar and file (not really necessary to reproduce the bug)
and select Item-> Write Metadata to file (this causes the bug)

This operation erroneously adds two hours to the image create date. My timezone is UTC+2, that might be the origin of the two hours.
This can be repeated an arbitrary number of times and always adds two hours.
This seems to be a bug. Any ideas on how to circumvent it? Some setting maybe?

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Problem should be fixed in digiKam-8.4.0, test version can be downloaded here:

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Thanks! Do you think this version is safe for daily use in terms of it not damaging my photos or do you think it’s better to wait for the stable release?

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This is a test version, but there are currently no new problems known. Compared to digiKam-8.3.0, 77 bugs have also been fixed.

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