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

[Silvano <silvanociru gmail com>]

@Nyall: sorry for the duplicated message, I forgot to send the reply
to the list :-)

I fully agree with you.

I really like F-Spot (if not, I wouldn't be trying to add video
support, see [1], although I haven't been really active there because
of a personal issue, I don't forget that construction site) But the
date&time handling really pisses me off. Specially because it isn't
documented anywhere! I found it out the hard way: after tagging around
3000 pictures! If I had known it before activating the "Save metadata
to file" option, I would have never activated it!

I find your proposal meaningful: Having a configuration checkbox to
set this feature on/off would be great. Patching F-Spot to avoid this
feature is peanuts, but I also think that a solution should be found
for the mainstream. I suppose that I could try to do a patch for
having that option, but I don't want to do it if it'll never get to
mainstream.

My question would be: is there any change that such a patch would get
to mainstream?

I never heard about that time-zone feature that you mention, could
anybody give me a link to the relevant discussions? I find that
feature interesting.

Hasta la vista,
    Silvano

[1]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166038

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 04:54, Nyall <nyall zombiepigs net> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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. :(
>
> (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!)
>
> Regards,
> Nyall
>
>
>
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