Re: [gthumb-list] Preserving modification time on image files

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 23/11/2011 21:23, Greg Mansfield ha scritto:
> While using gThumb to add descriptions to a directory of my photos, I
> noticed (ls -l) that the modification times did not change after I added
> the descriptions. The file length did increase as expected.
>
> A number of backup programs (rdist for example) would not detect that
> the file content changed because they use modification time to detect
> content changes.
>
> Is this behavior by design?

yes, it's done on purpose, because I keep images ordered by modification 
time, and when I add a comment I don't want the image to move to the 
bottom of the list, but this is just my taste...

> Should it be changed?

...you are right that if a file is changed its modification time should 
change as well

> Greg Mansfield

- Paolo