Error in docs about "file creation date"

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Tue May 22 18:14:17 EDT 2007


>I repeat my recommendation to add the ability to read EXIF data with 
>the detailed files function:
>EXIFdata seem to be really reliable data, survive most transfer 
>procedures, and spare you the trouble to remember in which way you 
>have transferred image files from one volume or folder to another or 
>which special photo tool you used to transfer the images. And they 
>survive even when the image file is "saved as" under a different 
>name. They will disappear only when you make major changes to the 
>image contents - like manipulating the imagedata.
>
>Regards,
>Wilhelm Sanke
>

I am not sure why you would want an operating system to look into the 
file content to fetch a date. After all, EXIF data is file content. I 
think that detailed files reports correctly file data as seen by the 
operating system.

Robert



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