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File creation timesFile creation timesPosted Aug 9, 2010 11:41 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)In reply to: File creation times by butlerm Parent article: File creation times
Also creation times may come from outside. For example, I would love to be able to list all my pictures in a directory by the time I created (shoot) them. That would be impossible without the ability to modify the creation time, because it would not be the time provided by the camera, but the one stamped by the kernel when the pictures were copied from it, which is far less useful for me.
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File creation times Posted Sep 29, 2010 13:36 UTC (Wed) by misiu_mp (guest, #41936) [Link]
Photo creation time is usually written in the exif data. I dont know if the camera can be trusted with setting file creation time for the files on the sdcard correctly. Not to mention they are stored on a removable fat system which means they could be modified by multitude systems with other oses.
File creation times Posted Sep 29, 2010 16:43 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Most cameras that I've seen (especially idiot boxes) can't be trusted to have their clocks set to the current month, much less the correct time zone.
There's a photographer that I know who often cares about the exact time a picture was taken (professional building shots, relying on sun angles). He first takes a picture of his GPS so, if things look weird, he can figure out the correction.
Anyhow point is, unless the camera is running NTP or a GPS receiver, I wouldn't put much weight in EXIF data!
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