Re: Plea for sanity in f-spots date/time handling

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

Hi,

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 14:54 +1100, Nyall wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know this issue has been raised time & time again, but it's such a
> major hurdle in using f-spot that I'd love to see it discussed again and
> hopefully finally resolved.
oh no, not that discussion again. What about using that energy to write
code ?
> 
> If I understand correctly, f-spot devs plan on adding a time-zone
> feature in photo tags which *should* fix this problem. If so, is there
> any time frame on when this is likely to happen? 
I do have plans to fix the various TZ issues for the next major release.
What are your plans to make it happens ?

> 
> In the meantime, is it possible to have a checkbox for something like
> 'Always assume times are local time', which would bypass any corrections
> f-spot tries to do for time zone & utc, and just show the time exactly
> as it is in the photo metadata, and set times exactly as they are set in
> the 'adjust time' dialog? Personally, I don't care about time zones, and
> never will, but just want f-spot to show the dates correctly that I've
> set on my photos. :(
It's indeed possible, but I won't spend the time I could use writing the
proper solution on cooking a workaround.

> 
> (I should add - apart from this one issue I think f-spot is a fantastic
> program, and I'm a big fan of all the devs who've put stacks of time and
> hard work into making it the program it is today!)
(Thanks for that (looks like the parenthesis are mandatory for praises).
We, developers, are big fans of our users too)

> 
> Regards,
> Nyall
> 
> 
> 
> 
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