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

[Anders Lund]

Mandag den 27. juli 2015 22:12:37 skrev 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?

Hi Mark,

In the "Properties" panel (the top one on right here), the file date is shown 
under "file properties", while the capture date is shown under "photo 
properties".

Kindly,
Anders

> 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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