[Digikam-users] how does digikam determine the date of an image?

[Mark Alford]

Yes. My question is which of these (or which other recorded date) does
Digikam choose to display in the right panel, below the Captions?


On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 15:16 -0500, Alan Pater wrote:
> On a general level, apart from which date digikam is showing you,
> there are 3 possible DateTime values for digital images.
> 
> From page 37 of the Metadata Working Group Guidelines:
> 
> - Date/time original specifies when a photo was taken.
> 
> - Date/time digitized specifies when an image was digitized.
> 
> - Date/time modified specifies when a file was modified by the user.
> 
>          http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org/pdf/mwg_guidance.pdf-
> 
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Mark Alford <alford at wuphys.wustl.edu
> > wrote:
> > How is the Date determined?
> > Is it the image file's modification time, or some EXIF data field 
> > from
> > the file, or what?
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