[digiKam-users] Digikam timestamp failing

[Maik Qualmann]

Windows or Linux? The year 1970 is the Unix start point with counting the date 
/ time. The API we use under Windows refuses negative numbers, so it is not 
possible to set a date earlier than 1970 at the moment. 

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2021, 02:31:34 CEST schrieb David Morehead:
> Hi everyone. I have been working on scanning thousands of family photo.
> Digikam has been an awesome tool for organizing the photos and the key for
> the project. To make the photos accessable to my family, I have been
> uploading them to Google Photos. Google used the modified date to order the
> photos. This includes photos from 1905 to present that have successfully
> uploaded to Google.
> 
> A couple weeks ago I started receiving a timestamp update error on Digikam
> when trying to update the photo dates. First I thought it was a permission
> setting off but everything else updates correctly besides the timestamp.
> Then I thought it was the database, so I tried creating a new database with
> the same error on the new database. Then tried fresh install of Digikam
> without any luck. This weekend, I restored my PC back to factory thinking
> something with the OS could have corrupted but it still has the same issue.
> 
> I've spend the last couple days trying to troubleshoot and discovered that
> it work correct when trying to update any time after 1970. Dates prior to
> 1970 cause the tool to fail. Any suggestions on what could be causing this
> or how to fix it? It previously worked perfectly fine to edit over 1000
> photo's modified and created dates prior to 1970.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> David