Bug 460135

Summary: digikam should use ISO date format, or at least the system setting
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Jonas Stein <kde>
Component: Usability-ErgonomyAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: minor CC: metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.9.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Date with Colons in Metadata
Dateformat in Album
Dateformat in File Properties

Description Jonas Stein 2022-10-08 21:20:36 UTC 
Created attachment 152649 [details]
Date with Colons in Metadata

SUMMARY

The date format in Digikam should be 
* the same date format in all places
* at least ISO date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
* use the users locales settings (like TIME_STYLE=long-iso)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
open Digikam and look at all different places where a date is printed. 
Screenshot attached.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Gentoo Linux
KDE Frameworks  Version 5.98.0
Qt Version 5.15.5 (built against 5.15.5)
The xcb windowing system
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2022-10-08 21:25:29 UTC 
This is a metadata viewer, the metadata is in this date format. A conversion to the ISO format is not desired here.

Maik
Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2022-10-08 21:31:39 UTC 
Note that the date metadata fields are strings, ExifTool also decodes them as text, we want to see the actual content.

Maik
Comment 3 Jonas Stein 2022-10-08 21:32:49 UTC 
Created attachment 152650 [details]
Dateformat in Album
Comment 4 Jonas Stein 2022-10-08 21:34:17 UTC 
Created attachment 152651 [details]
Dateformat in File Properties
Comment 5 Jonas Stein 2022-10-08 21:37:18 UTC 
I confirm, that my example screenshot was a special case. Because this format is exactly the raw data from exif.
You can delete the "Date with Colons in Metadata" screenshot, if it confuses.

I created screenshots for more general description of the problem. Please reopen.
Comment 6 Maik Qualmann 2022-10-08 21:39:34 UTC 
The representation of the date format depending on the application is desired. e.g. long format in the album category or shortened in the properties.

Maik