Error in docs about "file creation date"

Wilhelm Sanke sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de
Tue May 22 19:04:40 EDT 2007


Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com wrote:
 

> 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



Robert,

one of the points we investigated in this long thread was that the 
detailed-files information can come up with up to *four* different 
"creation dates" for the same image file, depending on how the files 
were transferred from the camera to the computer, which OS  and what 
special photo tool was used, and if the files had been moved or copied 
or saved from one volume or folder to another.

The term "creation date" is misleading here, because what the detailed 
files retrieves is basically different from the real "creation date" of 
a camera image. Only in some cases is the detailed-files creation date 
identical with the creation date of the photo.

Regards,

Wilhelm Sanke

<http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>




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