Date and Time on importing

[Paul Wellner Bou <paul purecodes org>]

Hi,

There is a strange behaviour of f-spot. I import my RAW images from the 
camera or card reader and f-spot takes the date. You know, I don't like 
the date handling like f-spot does it but anyway, at this time all more 
or less correct.

If I convert the RAWs to JPGs, the JPGs are saved automatically in the 
same directory. Then I reimport the JPGs to f-spot (with my own 
extension, with dragging and dropping or just going to [Import] and 
selecting the right directory).

The exif dates in those JPGs is the same as the RAW date, I checked 
this. But f-spot uses different dates. I have, for example, a few 
converted JPGs taken on May, 1st (2008). F-Spot stores them in 
2008/05/07 and displays this date. Then there is one taken on April, 
29th. F-Spot takes the date as 5/4/2008. I can reimport the photos on 
another day and this does not change.

What is happening here?
Why is the exif date kind of ignored?
Why don't use just the exif date to display and order the photos?

Regards
Paul.