SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Select 2 photos with Date Taken timestamp a second apart 2. Choose Group -> Group By Time 3. OBSERVED RESULT 2 images with timestamps 2016:03:18 15:52:15 2016:03:18 15:52:16 get grouped together. EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Images are grouped with less than 2 seconds. I think this is again a locale problem with the AppImage. Please start the AppImage with "LANG=C /path/to/digikam.appimage" and report if the problem is solved. Maik
Apologies, rushed that post - additional details below. SUMMARY Digikam Group By Time groups images by nearest minute, not nearest second. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Select 2 photos with Date Taken timestamp a second apart 2. Choose Group -> Group By Time 3. OBSERVED RESULT 2 images with timestamps 2016:03:18 15:52:15 2016:03:18 15:52:16 get grouped together. EXPECTED RESULT Images a second or more apart should not be grouped SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 19.04 (5.0.0-15-generic SMP x86_64) KDE Plasma Version: Plasma 5.15.5 from Kubuntu backports KDE Frameworks Version: 5.57.0 Qt Version: 5.12.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Apologies again, didn't expect/realise someone had already replied thanks for the quick response! I had read elsewhere that only images where only grouped within a second of each other. If it's 2 seconds, is there a way for the user to reduce that? My use-case: I only want photos with identical timestamps grouped (RAW & JPEG of the same shot). With grouping as it is I get different shots taken manually in quick succession or burst shots grouped together.
As I said, it is less than 2 seconds, which works properly here with a native digiKam version. And 2 seconds are not too much even with a fast image sequence. But we already have reports that QDateTime does not work correctly for some users in the AppImage, including when comparing the creation date. We need to find the cause and a solution for the AppImage. How is your system locale set? And does it work, if you start the AppImage with "LANG=C /path/to/digikam.appimage"? Maik
If that is the intended behaviour then it is also working on my system, the images are less than 2 seconds apart. That was a misunderstanding on my part. The bug can be closed, I may put in a feature request instead for some level of adjustment to the group time range in settings. Thanks again for the help.