[Digikam-users] timeline vs tags

[Alan Pater]

In my old scanned images - of my grandfather for instance - I pick a
date in the middle of the year. Most of those photos appear to have
been taken in the northern summertime, apparently around noon if one
judges from the shadows ... Others of my parents ice skating were
likely in January ... Very few appear to have been taken at midnight.

This is the Date/Time Original tag. Date/Time Digitized is when they
were scanned.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Martin Burnicki
<martin.burnicki at burnicki.net> wrote:
> Alan Pater wrote:
>> Not sure about the timeline function, but I would hope that it follows
>> Metadata Working Group guidelines:
>>
>>     http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org/pdf/mwg_guidance.pdf#page=37
>
> Thanks for the pointer. This is a very interesting document.
>
> I'm currently also struggling with date/times added manually to scanned
> images.
>
> Of course I can add some information on the "Digitized Date/Time", but
> the problem is that each time stamp *must* be a complete date and time.
> So if I only know the year and month but not the day of month when the
> scanned photo I'm scanning was originally taken 20 years ago I always
> have to use a fake date, e.g. using "01" for the day of month, and
> "00:00:00" for the time even if this is not correct.
>
> It would be better to be able to specify dates like "1935-07" if the day
> and time are not known, or just a year number, but it looks like the
> metatags don't support this.
>
> Martin
>
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