Re: Alternative UI for changing time and timezone

[Mattias Holmlund <mattias holmlund gmail com>]

On 8/18/05, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> wrote:
> Good Job Mattias
> 
> And I totally agree, we need a TimeZone info for each picture.
> 
> Some extra thoughts:
> 
> 1) If the photo has GPS data in it, the timezone should be determined from
> this information (I seem to remember a TR on this)

I have seen mentioning of a timezone field in exif outside of the
GPD-section as well. I can't seem to find a reference to it now, but
if we want to update the exif information, we should write the
timezone as well.

> 2) When you import photos (from Camera or from disk), one question should
> be from which country/timezone. In this way we get the proper data
> directly.

Or possibly set the timezone to a configurable default value and let
the user adjust it later if he wants to.

/Mattias

> (3 At the same time we should also fill in Copyright, License and other
> general information)
> 
> /Bengt
> 
> On To, 2005-08-18, 04:52 am, Mattias Holmlund skrev:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have written a proposal for how f-spot can allow a user to adjust
> > the times and dates for his images and allow f-spot to keep track of
> > the correct timezone for images. The proposal includes a mockup dialog
> > and a description of how to update several images at once.
> >
> > You can read the proposal at
> >
> > http://www.holmlund.se/f-spot/time-edit-proposal.html
> >
> > I'm not volunteering to implement this myself yet, I have to get up to
> > speed on C# and finish my other patch first...
> >
> > /Mattias
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