<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>How about </div><div><br></div><div>exiftool -xmp:dateTimeOriginal="2005:10:23 20:06:34.33-05:00" a.jpg<br><br>When writing XMP or other information types which allow incomplete date/time values, the following input formats are also accepted:<br><br>YYYY<br>YYYY:mm<br>YYYY:mm:dd<br>YYYY:mm:dd HH:MM</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jens Benecke <jens-digikam@spamfreemail.de> </div><div>Date: 2017-05-18 3:40 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: How do I save "DateTime imported" value in Digikam? </div><div><br></div></div>hi,<br><br>wow - that was a quick reply. :)<br>I dug a little further and found out that Adobe (XMP creator) defines the following:<br><br>DateTime = date the photo was added to the catalogue<br>DateTimeOriginal = date the photo was taken<br>DateTimeModified = date the photo was last modified<br><br>In the XMP files created by Digikam I see<br><br>xmp:CreateDate<br>xmp:ModifyDate<br><br>which would correspond to #2 and #3 above.<br><br>Is this correct? Does Digikam handle it this way? What would the correct tag for #1 (DateTime) be?<br><br>-- <br>Jens Benecke - jens@spamfreemail.de<br>Keine Lust auf Müll in ihrem Postfach? www.spamfreemail.de<br><br><br><br>> Am 18.05.2017 um 23:14 schrieb Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com>:<br>> <br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> There is no tags into digiKam corresponding to this kind of date in database.<br>> <br>> Gilles Caulier<br>> <br>> 2017-05-18 20:25 GMT+02:00 Jens Benecke <jens-digikam@spamfreemail.de>:<br>>> Hi,<br>>> <br>>> I have roughly 48’000 photos which I am converting from iPhoto. (see github -> jensb/iphoto2xmp)<br>>> <br>>> iPhoto saves a timestamp called „Datetime Imported“ in addition to „Date taken“ and „Date last modified“.<br>>> It’s not the „DateTimeDigitized“ flag known from EXIF, this is the date the photo was imported into iPhoto.<br>>> <br>>> I would like to preserve this flag during my Digikam conversion.<br>>> What XMP flag would be most suitable for this purpose?<br>>> <br>>> Thanks!<br>>> <br>>> --<br>>> Jens Benecke - jens@spamfreemail.de<br>>> Keine Lust auf Müll in ihrem Postfach? www.spamfreemail.de<br><br></body></html>