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

[Gilles Caulier]

Look like your image is imported properly in my collection :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/5118954880/sizes/o/in/photostream/

The creation date is right...

Gilles Caulier

2010/10/26 Kyle Altendorf <kyle.altendorf at gmail.com>:
> Screenshot:
> http://fstab.net/digikam/digiKam_calendar_view_properties.png
>
> Creation and modification times are both listed as October 25, 2010
> under the thumbnail as is the date in the properties view.  In case
> it's useful the original image is available at:
>
> http://fstab.net/digikam/DSCI0682.JPG
>
> There are other images acting similarly, I have just selected this one
> as a particular example.  digiKam may have been open when the images
> were copied (outside of digiKam) to this computer on the 25th.
>
> Cheers,
> -kyle
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 14:41, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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