On On, 2005-08-24, 04:03 am, Mattias Holmlund skrev: > On 8/22/05, Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The autoincrement time is nice, if you have say 20 pictures you have the >> wrong time and date on (or who do not have any time at all), and you >> want >> the physical name to be like <timestamp>-Home.jpg or something like >> that. >> Then you want to ensure that all pictures have a different time. >
> Setting the time on all images without taking into account the current > time on the images is a very different function. To me, this is a very > specialized function. I think that all cameras today add a timestamp > to the images when they are taken. The only time you might encounter > an image without a timestamp is the exif-information has been removed. > Another possible use-case is when you have images from a lot of > different cameras and you don't have time to do an accurate adjustment > for each camera and just want to set them "roughly right". I think > both these cases are uncommon. We should support them, but we must > somehow make the distinction between "relative adjustment" and setting > an absolute time (with or without auto-increment). > The way I solved this one was to have two radio buttons, one for Adjusting the timezone (so to speak), and the other to set the Date (and possible time) In my case, I choosed to have a checkbox which had to be active to set the time, otherwise only the date part would be set (keeping the original time stamp). I had a number of photos that did not have a timestamp on them. Do not ask me why, I have no clue. I also had a number of photos that had a very weird timestamp (like 1970 or something). This was on the photos I took with my first camera (Canon Ixus), but just proves the point that we need to be able to handle it. > >> >> > >> > I have also removed the checkbox/radiobuttons before the dates and > This situation differs between "relative adjustments" and absolute. > For relative adjustments, you always specify an adjustment in > plus/minus days, hours, minutes and seconds. If you don't want to > change the date, then days is simply set to zero. You specify the > amount of relative adjustment by changing the date/time for the first > picture and all subsequent pictures will be adjusted the same amount. > If you only want to change the timezone, you simply set the adjustment > to zero (by not changing the date and time in the dialog) and then > specify the new timezone. Hmm... I seem to remember you only had a calender function, that will always return a date. So you can not set it to Zero. I would still recommend using the RadioButtons/Checkbox'es. Much clearer, especially since if they are disabled (the radio or checkbox), then a lot of the options are visibly disabled Why do you need to adjust more than (plus/minus) 23 hours 59 minutes? Changing timezone is within that area. And I think it is enough. If more, then select some pictures and change the date on them, and repeat... > > For the absolute adjustments, I believe that you always want to set > both date, time and timezone. How can you possibly have a set of > pictures that have one of them correct but not the other? If you only > want to change the timezone, you should use the "relative adjustment" > function and not the absolute. Your son could have been in charge of changing the time on the camera, and he by mistake used the wrong date... I agree with timezone, but until Larry decides how F-Spot should handle it.... > >> > >> > Regarding timezones: There are two timezone settings in my dialog. The >> > first one specifies the timezone that the time is currently in. The >> > second one allows you to adjust the timezone. Note that if you start >> > off with a timestamp in for example UTC, there is a difference between >> > adding two hours and setting the timezone to +02:00 versus to convert >> > the timezone to Europe/Stockholm, since only the latter one takes >> > daylight savings time into account. I wanted to have a from/to timzone settings in my adjust time dialog. But since F-Spot do not handle timezone today, and it was simplier without... You also need to cope with the daylight saving and all that... /Bengt -- Bengt Thuree [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thuree.com/bt _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
