[digiKam-users] Digikam timestamp failing

[David Morehead]

Thank you for your reply. It is a windows 10 operating system that I'm
using Digikam on. Looking back at the older files, when dates prior to 1970
we're added using Digikam, windows filled them with blanks on the file.
Seems a recent windows update isn't allowing null values on the file dates
and throwing the error. I unchecked the update last edit date option on the
tool and it's running correctly for the metadata now. Hopefully they will
continue to upload to Google photos correctly.

Thanks again for your reply
David

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 2:13 AM Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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