[Digikam-users] Re: Calendar view - not sorting by EXIF date

[Gilles Caulier]

In Exif view of this image, turn on full tags list and look other date
information. Use tags filters if necessary.

This is the order of Exif/Xmp/IPTC tags used to fill date timestamp in
digiKam database :

http://lxr.kde.org/source/KDE/kdegraphics/libs/libkexiv2/libkexiv2/kexiv2image.cpp#482

As you can see in this code the order is :

Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal
Exif.Photo.DateTimeDigitized
Exif.Image.DateTime
Xmp.exif.DateTimeOriginal
Xmp.exif.DateTimeDigitized
Xmp.photoshop.DateCreated
Xmp.xmp.CreateDate
Xmp.tiff.DateTime
Xmp.xmp.ModifyDate
Xmp.xmp.MetadataDate
Iptc.Application2.DateCreated
Iptc.Application2.DigitizationDate

Gilles Caulier

2010/10/26 Kyle Altendorf <kyle.altendorf at gmail.com>:
> I just started working with digiKam (again) and have tried both v1.4.0
> and v1.5.0 (from the philip5 ppa) in Kubuntu Maverick and neither
> version's calendar view seems to be working off of the EXIF date.
> When I select, for example, 2010 -> October I get a bunch of images
> from this month but also some that have creation and modification
> dates this month but EXIF dates from various other times.  The
> documentation states that:
>
> "digiKam uses either the EXIF date or, if no EXIF date is available,
> the last modification time of the file."
> http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-kapp.html#using-mydatesview
>
> but that is not what I am observing.  A screenshot is available at:
>
> http://fstab.net/digikam/digiKam_calendar_view.png
>
> In that shot you can see the calendar view selection (October 2010),
> the modification and creation dates (October 25, 2010), and the EXIF
> date (December 23, 2007).
>
> Is there any option for this now or does the documentation need to be
> updated?  Thanks for the great software and any help you can offer on
> this matter.
>
> Cheers,
> -kyle
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