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

[Mark Alford]

OK, so now my question is: which EXIF date does digikam use?
The file I am interested in has many dates in the EXIF metadata:

> exiftool -a -G1 P1000986_new.MOV | grep -i date
[System]        File Modification Date/Time     : 2015:07:27 19:07:01+01:00
[System]        File Access Date/Time           : 2015:07:28 19:31:06+01:00
[System]        File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2015:07:27 19:07:01+01:00
[QuickTime]     Create Date                     : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[QuickTime]     Modify Date                     : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[Track1]        Track Create Date               : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[Track1]        Track Modify Date               : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[Track1]        Media Create Date               : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[Track1]        Media Modify Date               : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[Track2]        Track Create Date               : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[Track2]        Track Modify Date               : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[Track2]        Media Create Date               : 2013:05:17 05:16:08
[Track2]        Media Modify Date               : 2013:05:17 05:16:08


On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 09:55 +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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?