What date is used when importing images?

[Simon Frei]

Hi,

I know this was already discussed some time ago, but I would still like
to bring it up again:
Someone who actually cares about the picture date (i.e. renames files
accordingly) certainly is interested in the date when the picture was
taken, not some random system date, which is usually not even consistent
on different systems. Taking the time from exif should be the standard
or there should be a much more prominent switch (i.e. directly in the
import ui). As the emails below show you (understandably) cannot expect
a (new) user to look for and find this option.

Cheers,
Simon

On 11/11/16 08:02, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> 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.
>