Re: Patch! Change Time(zone) function

[Mattias Holmlund <mattias holmlund gmail com>]

On 8/15/05, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> wrote:
> Hej
Hej, 

> 
> Here is the first release of the ChangePhotoTime routine.
> 
> For a teaser, please check the GUI at
> www.thuree.com:8080/bt/testing/F-Spot_TimeZone.jpg
> 
> Please test it and do come with suggestions for features/enhancements.

I have given up on remembering to change the time on my camera every
time I travel to a different timezone. I always end up forgetting to
change it back... Instead, I have set the camera to use UTC time. This
means that the timestamp on each image is always a correct UTC time. I
haven't quite figured out how I would like f-spot to handle this. Some
kind of TimeZone-field where I can keep track of in what timezone the
picture was taken perhaps.

It might be a good idea to adopt UTC times for all images in F-Spot.
You don't necessarily have to set the time to UTC in your camera if
you don't want to, but it might make sense for f-spot to always store
timestamps in UTC. If f-spot stores the local time where the picture
was taken, the picture you took before you boarded the plane might
have an earlier timestamp than the picture you took when the plane
landed.

/Mattias

> 
> Gnome HIG I am not sure I am following, neither proper translation standards.
> This is my second try at coding in Gnome and C# so bear with me please :)
> 
> The command I used to create the diff files were as follows
>   diff -Naur ../f-spot-0.0.13.orig/src/Makefile src/Makefile > Makefile.diff
>   diff -Naur ../f-spot-0.0.13.orig/src/MainWindow.cs src/MainWindow.cs >
> MainWindow.cs.diff
>   diff -Naur ../f-spot-0.0.13.orig/src/PhotoStore.cs src/PhotoStore.cs >
> PhotoStore.cs.diff
>   diff -Naur ../f-spot-0.0.13.orig/src/f-spot.glade src/f-spot.glade >
> f-spot.glade.diff
> 
>   and then I just copied the ChangePhotoTime.cs file
> 
> The changes I introduced to PhotoStore consist of one new method
> (CommitTime (DbItem item))
> which updates only the time (thought it was uneccasary to call commit and
> modify tags and all).
> 
> Good luck
> 
> /Bengt
> 
> p.s.
> I have based my modifications on F-Spot version 0.0.13
> 
> 
> -----
> 
> A debug trace from one of my runs...
> 
> nrjbeth brdhcp052-89:~/development/f-spot/f-spot-0.0.13.TimeZone$ f-spot
> Photo 20030426_Jasmine_ 006.jpg, Old time 23/04/2003 7:11:06 AM, New time
> 24/04/2003 7:10:06 AM
> Photo 20030819_Jasmine_ 009.jpg, Old time 16/08/2003 10:50:27 AM, New time
> 17/08/2003 10:49:27 AM
> Photo 20030822_Jasmine 002a.jpg, Old time 21/08/2003 4:36:45 AM, New time
> 22/08/2003 4:35:45 AM
> Photo 20040131_JadeJasmine_China_1.JPG, Old time 30/01/2004 2:29:05 AM,
> New time 31/01/2004 2:28:05 AM
> Photo 20040629 183759_Linköping_PrincessJasmine_004.JPG, Old time
> 28/06/2004 8:38:59 AM, New time 29/06/2004 8:37:59 AM
> Photo 20040717 125752_Loftahammar_AakesSummerHouse.JPG, Old time
> 16/07/2004 2:58:52 AM, New time 17/07/2004 2:57:52 AM
> Photo 20040723 142528_Stockholm_Skansen_Jasmine_Bengt_005.JPG, Old time
> 22/07/2004 4:26:28 AM, New time 23/07/2004 4:25:28 AM
> Photo 20040905181719_Yokohama_SushiTime_Jasmine_000.JPG, Old time
> 4/09/2004 8:18:19 AM, New time 5/09/2004 8:17:19 AM
> Photo 20041005130110_Mohnani_Jasmine_Bengt.JPG, Old time 4/10/2004 3:02:10
> AM, New time 5/10/2004 3:01:10 AM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Bengt Thuree   bengt thuree com    www.thuree.com/bt
> 
> _______________________________________________
> F-spot-list mailing list
> F-spot-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
> 
> 
> 
>