Bug 87780 - Sort on date should look at the date the picture is taken
Summary: Sort on date should look at the date the picture is taken
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Albums-ItemsSort (show other bugs)
Version: 0.7.0
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2004-08-22 20:15 UTC by Tom Albers
Modified: 2022-02-20 08:46 UTC (History)
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Description Tom Albers 2004-08-22 20:15:26 UTC 
Version:           0.7.0-cvs (using KDE 3.3.0,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-7)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-1-k7

I've just transfered all my pictures from one computer to the other, when I select to sort on date, I just see august 2004 nothing more, while the pictures are taken over the last years. 

Could this be sorted based on the exif-date?
Comment 1 Tom Albers 2004-10-18 10:00:11 UTC 
*** Bug 91563 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 James Grant 2004-11-29 22:29:43 UTC 
*** Bug 93468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Tom Malfrere 2005-02-28 10:23:19 UTC 
I think images should be sorted on the image creation date from the EXIF header.
When you copy images under linux, the default behaviour is to alter the file timestamp to the current time... so when sorting on the file timestamp gets seriously screwed after copying images...
Comment 4 Tom Albers 2005-04-26 18:59:35 UTC 
This is implemented in the experimental branch, which will be distributed eventually as digiKam 0.8. Don't hold your breaths untill that one is released, but it will arrive.
Comment 5 Dennis Gnad 2005-07-27 13:59:55 UTC 
ah nice .... *waiting for 0.8*
I just wanted to report a bug about that..
but maybe add more than just exif date sorting, maybe for any exif info there is ? So you can find, for example your long time exposures, easily, and so on
Comment 6 Tom Albers 2005-07-27 14:08:53 UTC 
That will not be for 0.8, but is of course on the todo list.
Comment 7 Sebastian Voitzsch 2006-05-07 23:12:02 UTC 
Could you also make the date to sort for selectable by user?

I took a few photos today in RAW format this afternoon and converted them to jpg later this evening. Now the RAW converter adds a modification time to the EXIF header. When importing them into digikam the filename is generated from the last modification time found in EXIF, and this determines the sort order too. As I didn´t convert the files in the order they were taken they appear in random order now. It would be great if digikam lets the user select this.

Sebastian