[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 338533] New: sort by date should use date when picture was taken, not when it was modified

[Nicolas Pomarede]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338533

            Bug ID: 338533
           Summary: sort by date should use date when picture was taken,
                    not when it was modified
           Product: digikam
           Version: 4.2.0
          Platform: Mageia RPMs
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Albums GUI
          Assignee: digikam-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: npomarede at corp.free.fr

Hello
I'm having problem when using the "sort by date" view inside an album.
>From what I see, digkam use the "date of last modification" to do this sort,
but I would need "date when the picture was taken".

The reason is that if you modify your photo (eg : use an external program like
"iptc" to modify a list of metadata in a group of photos) then digikam will use
this date (for example 2014/08/24) to sort the photos, while the photos were
maybe taken in 2012, 2013, ... So the order gets all messed up.

So, it would be better IMHO to sort by "creation date" and then use
"modification date" if "creation date" was not found.

I ran into a similar problem some years ago in gwenview, which was fixed, see
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281720 for some details and some possible
exif tag to use.

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