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

[Gilles Caulier]

By order of priority :

1/ Exif date (the camera shot are registered here)
2/ Makernotes if exist (as a part of Exif)
3/ XMP
4/ IPTC
5/ file time -stamp in case of no metadata are found (most weird case)

2015-07-28 8:33 GMT+02:00 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>:

> 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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