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

[Gilles Caulier]

And what's the file timestamp ? Go to properties tab from right sidebar

Gilles Caulier

2010/10/26 Kyle Altendorf <kyle.altendorf at gmail.com>:
> 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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