Re: Pictures show time three hours later

[Eric Mountain <eric mountain gmail com>]

On Tuesday 16 Sep 2008, you scribbled:
> > andrew:~ exiftool -G /home/andrew/Pictures/Photos/2003/9/10/013.jpg
> > [EXIF]          Date/Time Original              : 2003:09:10 18:00:00
>
> F-Spot shows "9/10/2003 6:00 PM".

> andrew:~ exiftool -G /home/andrew/Pictures/Photos/2008/08/31/IMG_1746.JPG
> > [EXIF]          Date/Time Original              : 2008:08:31 17:12:31
>
> F-Spot shows "8/31/2008 5:12 PM".

> andrew:~ exiftool -G /home/andrew/Pictures/Photos/2008/05/03/IMG_0218.JPG
> > [EXIF]          Date/Time Original              : 2008:05:03 10:08:47
>
> F-Spot shows "5/3/2008 10:08 AM". I hope this is enlightening. :)

Well f-spot's DB info is not out of synch with the EXIF data in the photos: 
f-spot is displaying the same time as is stored in the photo.  This is to be 
expected if you've opted for writing metadata back to file.  And that time is 
what f-spot thought was UTC when importing the photo (or setting the 
date/time explicitly from within f-spot).

As Bengt Thuree mentionned earlier in the thread, it is worth looking at the 
existing bugs regarding f-spot's time management.  You might gain a better 
understanding of how f-spot currently deals with time and how that might have 
brought on your current problem.

e.g.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340899
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340903
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332025

Cheers,
Eric
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