Time Zones

Started by erichaas, November 22, 2017, 03:30:25 AM

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erichaas

I just upgraded to 2017.11.4, and I notice in the Metadata panel, in the Core Data section, the Date Created, Date Digitized, and Date Modified fields don't show the time zone any more. If I click on a date to edit it, the time zone info is there, but once I'm done editing, the time zone is hidden again. Is there a setting that changes whether the time zone is displayed?

Mario

This is normal.
IMatch displays these timestamps in your local time zone ("your time"). This is a convenience feature. The Metadata panel will also use literal names like "Today" when you have created the image today.
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Viscus

Mario is there no way to change this?
For me it's important in which timezone the pictures are and now i don't have any chance to see it without clicking on every picture :-(
Otherwise i have to check every picture over the exif viewer. Not so comfortable at all.
For me its a backward feature.

Mario

I replies nonsense yesterday, sorry..

IMatch should show things like Today or Yesterday when a timestamp matches. But it should show the time zones data if a time-zone offset is specified in the timestamp.
This is linked to a problem I've just discovered this afternoon. Under some conditions an internal routine does not set the "has time-zone" flag when formatting a timestamp, and this causes this problem. As far as I could determine this is caused by a change in the time parsing algorithm introduced recently. This change was required to handle even more time formatting variants introduced by some applications.

I will fix this for the next scheduled release (soon).
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