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

[Kyle Altendorf]

I guess it's likely an import bug then?  I figure I'll write metadata
to all files, remove all collections, and then add back the
collections...  unless there's a better way to give digiKam a chance
to reprocess the dates and resolve this?  And then in the future I
should always have digiKam closed when copying files (not using
digiKam) into catalogue directories?

Thanks again,
-kyle


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 17:25, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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