What date is used when importing images?

[Erick Moreno]

I have the same issue when I try to import from mobile phone mounted as MTP
device. Since many versions ago.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Pioter Gmoter <piotergmoter at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I import images with this rule:
>
> [date:yyyy-MM-dd_hh.mm.ss]{lower}{unique}.[ext]{lower}
>
> exactly what date is used to make the new name of the image?
>
>
> The problem was not visible during import from the device which made the
> photo (camera, phone) but appeared when I was importing using CTRL-ALT-I.
> So I first copied images using dolphin from mobile phone to my hdd, than
> imported such images to NAS using digikam. What I have found was that the
> name of the file had wrong date ie: not the date from the EXIF but the
> modification date of the file. Is it normal? From my point of view not. The
> file itself can have bad date, and I'd like to be sure that digikam uses
> the reliable source of date which means EXIF. So how does  it actually work?
>
>
> Regards
>
> P.
>



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