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

[Kyle Altendorf]

Hi Gilles,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I clicked the 'Full list' button for this
screenshot:

http://fstab.net/digikam/digiKam_calendar_view_full_exif.png

All three EXIF dates appear to be present and the same (December 23, 2007).

Cheers,
-kyle


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 13:19, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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