On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:56 +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Pat Suwalski, 2008-04-28 17:36:43 -0400 : > > > Now you see why f-spot should not be handling timezones? There are a > > million scenarios to handle. Without timezone handling, f-spot could > > just show the date as it appears in the photo and save a lot of > > headache. > > If you only want to display a date, then fine. But remember we're > talking about a computer program here, which we have come to expect to > do smart things like sort according to dates, or filter according to a > date range, or that kind of stuff. You just can't do these things > reliably with just a string without TZ info. For instance, a picture > shot at "2008:10:26 03:15:00" may actually bave been shot before > another one known to EXIF as "2008:10:26 02:45:00" (end of DST in > Western Europe).
But f-spot probably shouldn't change the local times in the photos. When you reimport f-spot photos (for whatever reason), the dates get shifted repeatedly. However, it's possible to abuse the GPSTimeStamp EXIF tag to store a UTC time, according to: http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/4790 f-spot could check for that tag on import and use it if present, or create it (based on the computer's timezone) if not. Ugly, no? :) -- Tim Retout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
