What date is used when importing images?

[Simon Frei]

I saw this too late, sorry for the double email:
No, this is a digikam setting: Go to "Configure digiKam", "Cameras" and
then to the register "Behavior". There you have to tick the option "Use
file metadata (...)".

Cheers,
Simon

On 11/11/16 12:19, 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.
>
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> 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.