What date is used when importing images?

[Frédéric Chaume]

agree with you

I got a strange behavior (I'm new comer on DK) , where when adding some 
comment on a set of pictures through "caption" manu on the left and 
click on apply to all version (by error, as I was thinking of version of 
a picture) , I found that the creation date has been modified by the 
date of the modification

all was relatives to pictures made with a smartphone (is it linked?)  
and hopefully the name of the file contain


but just check agoin, changing the date in the caption directly impact 
the original date, is it normal ?


regards

frederic


Le 11/11/2016 à 12:24, Simon Frei a écrit :
> 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.
>