[KimDaBa] Exif, again...

[Alain.Picard at memetrics.com]

Dear Kimdaba users and developers,

Hello, and thank you!  

I've been madly trying to find out how to organize my digital
pictures, having fallen waaaaay behind (now 4000 pix).  I found
no software whatsoever which would solve my problem.

I spent some days designing what such software would look like,
when, by accident, I find... kimdaba!  And it's _exactly_ what I
had designed!  [No, actually, it's much _better_...]

Needless to say, I'm now a very happy camper, and am madly catching
up trying to put in my metadata tags.

I found 1 problem though: the dates don't seem to all have been
imported properly from the exif header.  Some pictures were
heavily preprocessed and did not have exif headers at all.

So I was looking at the exif headers with `exif' and `jhead' and the
only date related fields I could find in the images where the date got
successfully imported were
  Date and Time       |2004:04:12 20:28:34 
  Date and Time (origi|2004:04:12 20:28:34 
  Date and Time (digit|2004:04:12 20:28:34 

So I manually set this field in my images which were missing
exif info, so it now looks like:
  Date and Time       |2000:08:19 12:00:00

I then re-imported the exif info with Maintenance->Read exif info from files
but nothing seems to have been found, and the dates still show as
the date of initial import into kimdaba.

I had a peek at the code, and my impression is the info is set
in this line of code, in imageinfo.cpp:
 QDate date = exif[QString::fromLatin1( "CreationDate" )].toDate();

which confuses me no end, as I then can't see how this can get set
from the "Date and Time" header, which it patently does.


Any help or advice will be appreciated!