When viewing photos, it is desirable to view their created date or date taken date, not their modified or computer file created dates. Dolphin's information properties tab incorrectly shows this date as a simple number, not a date as specified in the locale settings. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Dolphin 2. Right click on a camera photo file (jpeg for instance, with exif data), select properties then information 3. If not configured previously, click configure... and select "creation" in 'configure shown data' dialog. 4. Created dates are now shown, but not in logical, human readable format. Actual Results: The photo file's created date is shown incorrectly. Expected Results: The file's created (date taken) date should be shown in the format defined via locale settings. Kubuntu Oneiric updated to Precise, KDE 4.8.4, Dolphin 2.0
Created attachment 72745 [details] Tooltip Example
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The problem is more underlying. Those information are (directly) provided and displayed by class KPropertiesDialog and KFileMetaDataWidget. Also see bug 303707
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Works for me. Dolphin 2.1 / KDE 4.9.2
Created attachment 81312 [details] Incorrect date format shown in properties
Comment on attachment 81312 [details] Incorrect date format shown in properties Still experiencing bug in KDE4.10.5 as previously reported.
As Jekyll said earlier, it's a KFileMetaDataWidget issue. That class is in the kio/kfile directory of kdelibs, so I hope that this is the right component. Note, however, that we actually have a replacement for that class - the FileMetaDataWidget in Nepomuk2. kdelibs code cannot use this new widget in KDE 4.x though.
Thank you Frank. So I guess I'd have to re-submit the bug under KFileMetaDataWidget then? (pardon my ignorance, I'm new to bug submitting) regards ________________________________ From: Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac@googlemail.com> To: uselessemailaccount@rocketmail.com Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:17 AM Subject: [kio] [Bug 303643] Photo file's creation date in wrong format when shown via right click, properties, information tab https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303643 Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac@googlemail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |frank78ac@googlemail.com Component|general |kfile Version|2.2 |4.10.5 Assignee|dolphin-bugs-null@kde.org |pfeiffer@kde.org Product|dolphin |kio --- Comment #8 from Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac@googlemail.com> --- As Jekyll said earlier, it's a KFileMetaDataWidget issue. That class is in the kio/kfile directory of kdelibs, so I hope that this is the right component. Note, however, that we actually have a replacement for that class - the FileMetaDataWidget in Nepomuk2. kdelibs code cannot use this new widget in KDE 4.x though.
(In reply to comment #9) > Thank you Frank. So I guess I'd have to re-submit the bug under > KFileMetaDataWidget then? No, I have reassigned the report already.
This bug is still there in Plasma 5. Date created and last modification date is mixed up when copying a file. Then the "date created" will be shown as modification date - but that is wrong. Date created should never change when copying a file becaus then it is not a copy any more. The file modification date or last access-date could change. But NEVER the creation date. If that changes it`s not the original file any more and in a picture database thats very bad while sorting pictures for date and time... :-(
This was just fixed a few days ago in https://cgit.kde.org/dolphin.git/commit/?id=ea6a2424fb454eafb80a731e5fdce4e4a50cb606!