[Digikam-users] Problem concerning the displayed creation date of files without EXIF data.

[Thomas]

Hi all,

since a few days I am using digiKam 0.10.0 and I have to say it is a
great piece of software!!
But now I am a bit confused about the dates shown in digiKam.

In the thumbnail view there are shown two dates below each image, the
creation date as well as the modification date. For all of my pictures
containing EXIF data the dates are like I would expect. But for movies
as well as images without EXIF data it's a bit confusing. There, the
modified date matches the date the movie was taken, but the creation
date seems to be not really related to the file. The sad thing for me is
that the creation date is used for the timeline and thus all my movies
appear at the wrong date.

Here an example:
PICT0003.mov
created: 12.08.2008 (I have no idea what I did with the file on this
day)
modified: 16.05.2004  (on this day the movie was taken)

The strange thing is that the date shown as "created" is not equal to
the mtime, ctime, or utime of the file (according to "ls -l", "ls -lc",
and "ls -lu").

So finally, here are my questions: 
- Where does the date that is taken as the creation date by digiKam come
from?
- And, is there any possibility to replace the date stored as "created"
by the date stored as "modified"? I have several hundred images and
movies without EXIF data, so adjusting the date for each image by hand
using the menu is not a real option.

My system:
Ubuntu 9.04 (Linux 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59
UTC 2009)
Gnome 2.26.1

I would be really pleased for any kind of help.
Thanks a lot.
Thomas