Photo date/time

Hi jch5310,

What date do you mean, the DateTimeOriginal or DateTimeOriginal?
There is even a ModifyDate in EXIF data.

*Would it be an option to choose which date you prefer displaying?

I’m sorry if I overstepped a line here, but I do am thinking out-loud here.
There are so many option in EXIF that it’s hard to say what to use or not. ??

Love,
Amy

Hi jch5310,

there is a new field in “Edit upload form” available: date
Users are able to tell the image date time when submitting an image.
I think this is a good workaround.

Kind regards
Wasiliy

I’ve just found out there is a copy/paste error on my post, sorry ??

Second date in exif should be CreateDate
DateTimeOriginal is when the image was taken.
CreateDate is the file time/date.
For digital camera images, these are the same because the file is created at the same time the image is captured. Also ModifyDate would be the same.
Unless the image was modified then ModifyDate and CreateDate are the same and DateTimeOriginal is an earlier date.

With that in mind the picture date option in the upload form is a nice workaround.
This give you the opportunity to add the correct date even when your camera’s date if off..
I have tons of pictures made on january 1st 1990 -lol-

Maybe it’s an idea (in a future version) to automatically fill this with the EXIF DateTimeOriginal info?
and keep the ability to adjust it manually, in case your camera’s date is off?
Just my 2 cents ??

Love,
Amy

Maybe it’s an idea (in a future version) to automatically fill this with the EXIF DateTimeOriginal info?
and keep the ability to adjust it manually, in case your camera’s date is off?
Just my 2 cents ??

Yes, this is an excellent idea. It makes a lot more sense to have this done automatically on upload than to have to type in the correct date/time. The manual way is too prone to error and takes (unnecessary) time.

EXIF date/time tags are indeed confusing and awkwardly named. The free ExifTool https://exiftool.org/ is an excellent way to deal with metadata generally and date/times in particular.

A further request: It would also be useful to have an option for Description and Author/Creator to be automatically added from the EXIF data to the upload for the image. Again, this would make the workflow much easier to those uploading images.