[Digikam-users] Date view in 8.0 Beta1

[Renchi Raju]

On 8/27/05, Matt <matt-lists at comnet.net.nz> wrote:

ok. found the problem. digikam makes use of libkexif to get the image
datetime. in the exif info for the image there are three datetime
entries possible: datetime, datetime(original), datetime(digitized).
most cameras put the value in the datetime entry, but your camera
seems to put it in the other two fields. and libkexif used to look at
only the first entry. this has been fixed in the svn version of
libkexif (it will look for the other two entries if the first one is
not available).

> When does it scan?  Can I force it to re-scan?

it scans at startup and when you import in new images; but it skips
existing images. you can't force it to rescan ... yet. on the other
hand, you can make use of the timeadjust plugin from kipi-plugins to
correct the date (use the exif option). but, if i'm not mistaken, you
will need the svn versions of libkexif and kipi-plugins.

renchi