[digiKam-users] Digikam timestamp failing

[Maik Qualmann]

One more addition, only the file date is a problem, the date in the image 
metadata can also be set to an older than 1970 under Windows. 

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2021, 07:55:16 CEST schrieben Sie:
> 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