What date is used when importing images?

[Maik Qualmann]

Not in the mobile phone, in the digiKam camera setup page.

Maik

On Freitag, 11. November 2016 11:19:52 CET Pioter Gmoter wrote:
> Hm, is this feature in the mobile phone? Have not ever seen this.
> 
> And this apply only to MTP protocol I guess?
> 
> P.
> 
> W dniu 11.11.2016 o 08:02, Maik Qualmann pisze:
> > Enable the option in the camera setup: "Use file metadata (makes
> > connection
> > slower)". The date is now used from EXIF.
> > 
> > Maik
> > 
> > On Donnerstag, 10. November 2016 21:51:57 CET Pioter Gmoter 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.