File creation times

Posted Sep 29, 2010 13:36 UTC (Wed) by misiu_mp (guest, #41936)
In reply to: File creation times by dgm
Parent article: File creation times

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!