[Digikam-users] Renaming with Dates

[Carl McGrath]

Forget about issue 1.5, 24 hour format does seem to work.
I am not sure why I thought it did not.

On 05/28/2012 01:41 PM, Carl McGrath wrote:
> I am finally getting organized a bit and seeking to rename my pictures 
> with their creation date. I have two questions/issues that someone may 
> have figured out.
> 1. I have been setting my camera to local time (UTC-5/4 - USA East 
> Coast). The file times on the SD card are set to that time, but when I 
> use [date:ISO] or a custom date format to rename the file, it treats 
> the file date as UTC and subtracts 4 or 5 hr, depending on my computer 
> setting of DaylightSavings. I see nothing in the Renaming Dialog to 
> stop this, or to deal with Timezone in general. Am I missing something?
> 1.5 In a related issue, the image metadata appears to be in 24 hour 
> format, but Digikam seems to want to work in AM/PM, which is the way I 
> normally set time for the desktop. Is there a way to get Digikam to 
> use 24 hour clock for naming, but leave the desktop set AM/PM?
> 2. I tried using
>
> [meta:Exif.Image.DateTimeOriginal] as the date, but it appears to 
> return a null string. The DateTimeOriginal value is set in the EXIF 
> Metadata, I can see it in the side panel. Do I need to specify a 
> format? How?
>
> Thanks
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