digikam default options

[jdd]

Le 14/01/2017 à 16:51, Chris Green a écrit :
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 07:14:54AM -0700, Andrey Goreev wrote:
>>    Wanted to add to my message below.
>>
>>    I think adding any info to metadata should not be considered as "file
>>    modifying". Why would you add any metadata? To get your pictures
>>    organized, right? So why would mess with timestamps then? Original
>>    timestamps should be preserved.
>>
> The *files* timestamp (there are three actually) is operating system
> information and is an indicator to the operating system and is used by
> other programs and the OS to manage the file.
>
> If I modify a file by changing the metadata I *do* want to change the
> timestamp because this tells the operatiny system (and other software)
> that the file has been modified and should, for example, be backed up.
> Quite a lot of backup programs in particular rely on the file
> timestamps to decide whether a file should be backed up.
>
> The times in the metadata are for use by such as Digikam.
>
two things:

* digikam have to be more clear about what date is modified amoung all 
the versions possible

* this may be quite hard, because *system* dates vary with file system. 
Being linux or other, what are the dates kept on a FAT32 SD card?

jdd