Re: The timestamp thing

[Silvano <silvanociru gmail com>]

It's obvious to me that the F-Spot maintainers are more interested on
fancy features (rolls support, extensions, rating...) than on fixing
this hated feature (because unexpected, because undocumented...).

In my opinion, that's for them a desired feature (if not, they would
have never bothered to implement it) and therefore no urgent fix is
required. They probably think, that documenting is a nice to have...

I hope that you have luck and this feature gets fixed some day. I even
offered once to fix it, but one of the maintainers told me that it was
in his plans doing it. Repeating requests for that might convince them
to fix it :-)

Regards,
    Silvano

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 22:21, Michael Lissner
<mlissner michaeljaylissner com> wrote:
> I'm not an f-spot developer, but I can say that this problem REALLY needs to
> be elevated, as exemplified by the LWN posting a couple weeks ago.
>
> I have lost many, many hours to fixing, adjusting and manipulating time
> stamps as a result of whatever it is that f-spot does. I assume developers
> are aware of this problem now, so I guess the question is, what do we need
> to do to get it on the road map, and to get it fixed?
>
> Michael Lissner
> mlissner michaeljaylissner com
> 909-576-4123
>
> Steve McGrath wrote on 11/04/2009 12:05 PM:
>
> Hi all,
> Let me first say that F-Spot has absolutely rocked for me for a few
> years now, and I won't use anything else.
>
> That said, this ongoing timestamp issue is driving me nuts. I recently
> had to fix the timestamps on about 2,000 photos, some of which had been
> previously adjusted due to my camera being set wrong for a while. This
> caused much badness, completely hosed all my timestamps, and brought
> about the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
>
> I've cleaned that mess up now, all my timestamps are as correct as
> they're ever going to be. And now I'd like to keep them that way. What's
> the best way to accomplish this?
>
> I understand that F-Spot doesn't touch the timestamps if not set to
> store metadata in the files; but I'd still like to be able to save tags
> and captions into the files to work with other software.
>
> I suppose my two main questions boil down to these:
> I understand that if I start F-Spot with TZ=UTC set, it won't alter
> timestamps on new imports. Does it do anything to the way F-Spot
> displays timestamps from already-imported photos?
>
> Also, I've heard of a couple patches for F-Spot which keep it from
> mucking about with my EXIF timestamps. Is there such a patch which is
> compatible with the latest version?
>
>
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