Bug 89364

Summary: Change date of album to exif date of first image
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Tom Albers <toma>
Component: Searches-DatesAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: languitar
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.7.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 1.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Tom Albers 2004-09-12 17:26:10 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 copied the images from one computer to the other, without keeping the system date (yeah, that was stupid). 

It would be nice if digikam could change the date of the album to the exif date of the first image in the album. Maybe in the properties of the album or as a batch process.
Comment 1 Michał Kosmulski 2004-10-17 20:44:41 UTC 
Yes, this would be a welcome feature - currently setting album's date to the EXIF date of first image is what I perform manually each time I create a new album. Album properties dialog would a good place for a button performing this task automatically.
Comment 2 Tom Albers 2005-03-06 18:42:33 UTC 
This is implemented by me and will be part of digiKam 0.7.3
Comment 3 Roger Larsson 2006-04-28 15:29:47 UTC 
Note that the Summary says: "date of first image"

First in my PTP folder is curve.ntc
its date is 1 january 1970 00.59.58 (close to seconds=0)

- this is not an image, it should not affect the date

Name:   curve.ntc
Catalog: /special
Readrights: unknown
Writerights: unknown
Date: 1970-01-01 00.59.59
Size: 16 777 216 Tibyte (-1)
MIME-type: (none)
Width: unknown
Height: unknown
Downloaded: unknown

A problem is that NEF files looks like this

Namn: RLN_0377.NEF
Catalog: /store_00010001/DCIM/100ND200
Date: 2006-04-27 14.56.08
Size: 15.9 Mibyte
MIME-type: application/x-unknown
(other fields as for curve.ntc)

I wonder where the MIME-type comes from - camera?
Maybe use MIME/file-types as specified in the Digikam settings?
Comment 4 Arnd Baecker 2007-06-21 10:05:56 UTC 
It seems that implementing 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145743
would automatically solve this issue (only use dates of images files)
Comment 5 Johannes Wienke 2009-10-30 01:33:11 UTC 
Is this bug still valid?
Comment 6 Tom Albers 2009-10-30 09:51:25 UTC 
I don't use digikam anymore.