[Digikam-devel] [Bug 140202] Allow fuzzy dates for photos and albums

[Braden MacDonald]

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------- Additional Comments From mail bradenm com  2007-01-17 22:52 -------
I realize EXIF doesn't support fuzzy dates. I thought Digikam could set the EXIF date tag to the earliest possible date (e.g. "Jan. 1, 2006" for the fuzzy date "2006") and use a second tag (does ITPC support custom tags?) to indicate the fuzziness. This would allow backwards compatibility, and allow for fuzzy dates. 

Ideally, some modern, shared standard such as
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fshared_2dfilemetadata_2dspec
would allow standardization of a fuzzy date spec for all file types and metadata storage formats, which would prevent this from becoming useful only within Digikam.