Re: Date and Time on importing

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Interesting. There are date shifting problems related to timezones in 
f-spot, but having the date shifted by several days is a different story.

Can you run exiftime on one of the photos from before f-spot touches it?

--Pat

Paul Wellner Bou wrote:
> 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.
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