[Shotwell] Timezone problem with films?

[Eric Gregory]

We currently don't support adjusting the timestamp on video files, but
that's something we should support.  I entered a new ticket for this:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3066

  - Eric

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:42 AM, <shuihuzhuan at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As I said in my previous mail, the thumbnail generated by the camera in a
> separated JPEG file is detected at the right time (10:17PM localtime). So it
> may be a bug in the camera firmware that doesn't correctly set the time in
> the film :-<
> I could live with that if I could change the time of films in shotwell, but
> it's impossible for now. Is it a planned feature?
> I don't see a ticket for that.
>
> Thanks
>
> ----- Mail Original -----
> De: "Jim Nelson" <jim at yorba.org>
> À: shuihuzhuan at free.fr
> Cc: shotwell at lists.yorba.org
> Envoyé: Jeudi 6 Janvier 2011 02h51:51 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne
> / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
> Objet: Re: [Shotwell] Timezone problem with films?
>
> According to qtdump, the creation_time and modification_time of the file
> are the same, 2011-01-04 14:17:05, which is what Shotwell 0.8 displays here
> in California. Converting to Paris time (
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?month=1&day=4&year=2011&hour=14&min=15&sec=0&p1=224&p2=195) is 11:17PM of the same day, which is 23:17.
>
> I suspect the time/date is being set correctly in the thumbnail EXIF data
> and not in the video file itself. (I'm assuming the thumbnail is a separate
> JPEG on your camera.) This could be verified by examining the thumbnail file
> directly. If Shotwell won't download it, you can attach the camera and let
> Nautilus mount it, then find the file and copy it on your local filesystem.
>
> (For those interested, the video can be found here:
> http://trac.yorba.org/attachment/wiki/AVISamples/P1020237.MOV )
>
> -- Jim
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:09 AM, < shuihuzhuan at free.fr > wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've put a sample file (P1020237.MOV Panasonic DMC-TZ7). It was taken at
> 22:17 (localtime) and sorted as 23:17 by shotwell. The thumbnail for the
> film generated by the camera is correctly seen as 22:17.
>
> I don't find a timezone parameter when configuring the time and date of the
> camera, though there seems to be some notions of it for "planned travel".
> However the default choice indicated for the starting place is GMT+1 so I
> suppose the configuration is ok. I'll need to check the notice to be sure.
>
> If it's a real bug and not a misconfiguration of my camera I'll open a bug.
>
> Thanks for your help.
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