Questions tagged [date]
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How to get Digikam to display all 4 digits of the year in thumbnails and tooltips
Digikam 8.3.0 on Linux Mint 21.3
Dates shown on thumbnails and tooltips only show the last 2 digits of the year. I've got a bunch of old family photos going back to the 1800's. The dates are correct ...
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Embossed date markings on old Kodachrome slide frame
I'm processing boxes of old family slides. My father put an annotation on some of them (but I believe quite some time later, since in the same tray there are pictures from different years, but all ...
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How to change date format in digikam (day/month/year instead of month/day/year)
In Digikam, is it possible to change the default date format (e.g. in the EXIF metadata) to day/month/year, instead of month/day/year?
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What might be the reason I cannot see the date a photo was taken in its metadata?
I was sent a .jpeg photo by gmail. It looks like it is pasted into the mail, but it also shows up as an attached file on the mail preview. Opening the mail however, the photo is in-line with the text.
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Is there any way to date this photo?
I have this older looking Velox photograph with the numbers "430" typed on the back. The Velox logo in this photo has an Oval shape around the text with the text being in a fancy sort of ...
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Set Date Created from filenames
I have around 4k photos and 1k videos that have no date in metadata because I switched my phones. All of them have the dates in the filenames in the format -
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How do I decode the stamp on the back of this photograph
FOTO-KOCH E725 FRANKFURT-M. on the back of an old photo.
Was photograph taken in Frankfurt or just developed there?
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Date on the back of a developed photograph
Would any one have an idea of a year on either of these two stamps on the back of 2 photographs.
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QSS 27 58 N N N 2 2 printed on Kodak paper.
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05 41+00 NA1NN+ 12 015 printed on Fujicolor paper
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Which tag to set in exiftool (for videos) in order to keep timestamps persistant for display on a (Android) mobile device? [closed]
I recently backed up pictures and videos from my Android mobile phone using GoodSync in order to keep the correct timestamps in Windows. However, I realised that a large amount of files didn't have ...
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Is it possible to determine the year a photo was printed with the code printed on the front?
I am trying to figure out approximate dates for some old photo prints. A lot of them have codes printed in one of the front corners (e.g. "Jan M491", "Jun M391", "Aug M488&...
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Can anyone determine the date or just year of this photo from the code on the back?
Have this photo and wondering when it was taken/printed. From summer house that’s been in the family for over 50 years. Can anyone determine the date or even just the year from the code? Not even sure ...
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Corrupted Date Taken
Some of my older images are showing Date Taken later than the actual date that the camera took the image.
The EXIF data shows the correct Date Taken in the field APP12::PictureInfo\TimeDate\...
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Is there a standard convention for indicating precision in jpeg metadata timestamps?
Exif timestamps have a format of "YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS", possibly with a timezone at the end.
Is there a general convention for how to handle these timestamps when the known precision is less ...
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ExifTool command (Windows 10) to move files to a separate directory if the modified-date is later than the date-taken
I'm very new to this, please be gentle. My aim is to identify, and separate, original (unamended) photos, from several thousands of amended photos. Often with the same name but different directory.
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Retrieving the original date of a .JPG
I know a similar question was posted here before - which I will provide a link for below - but despite that, the exiftool.exe in the thread could not really retrieve the original date. The file in ...
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Change EXIF and/or Creation date based on folder name
I have lots of photos with non-existent exif dates where the write date is not correct. The original dates disappeared during a hard drive replacement. But they are in folders with the correct date.
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What does number after apostrophe mean on a photo?
Sometime I see photos on the Internet where some number inscripted, like on the image below.
I would say that it's a day/month/year, but I doubt, particularly about the last one, because photos I saw ...
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Nikon MF-29 date back usage and imprint location
I've pulled my F-100 out of the cupboard to use this weekend and remembered that it has an MF-29 date back. However I can't remember exactly how the date back works, neither do I have a manual for it,...
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Canon EOS 50D forgets date every time battery is changed
Every time I remove the battery of a Canon 50D, even if it's just for a second, the camera forgets the current date and when turning it back on after the battery change I have to set the date again.
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Software for detecting orange dates on 4x6" photo prints and adding to metadata
Is there any software that will detect (e.g., OCR) the orange date timestamps burned into 4x6" snapshot prints and automatically add the date EXIF metadata? Would be interested in options either baked ...
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Can I find anything out from numbers on the back of old photos?
I have some photos of my grandfather's during WWII and the occupation in Japan (1942-1949???). They are from all different places in Japan and were taken at different times. I wanted to know if there ...
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How can I rename files to match their EXIF "created date"?
I have around 3000 jpeg photos all with names like "DSC_0596". The metadata has the date the photo was created, which would be much more useful.
Is there a way to ...
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I deleted the EXIF data of my photo, just realised there also is IPTC data, can the date still be seen?
So I deleted all the EXIF on my photo, but found out I left out the IPTC data because never heard of it until I actually saw it still showed a ''date taken'' under the IPTC tab of software (Exifer) I ...
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Why don't Exif tags contain time zone information?
There's no zone information in the capture timestamp. Why?
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Do DSLR Camera's firmware date get set to UTC
I've started scripting the processing of images using EXIF 2.2.1 data. I noticed that all the date stamps are set to UTC (+0000).
Today I set my camera to ...
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How can I prove an edited photo was taken on a particular date/time?
Please help explain this.
I have a photo that has the filename containing the date taken. It looks like this when a photo is taken. Does an iPhone or Android automatically name the file with the date ...
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Show current date and time on Sony α6000 [closed]
Is there any way to display the current date and time on a Sony α6000, apart from going into the menu and trying to set it?
I find this feature very useful and it was very easy on my Canon DSLR, but I ...
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How can I decode information on back of printed photo?
I am digitizing all of my old family photos and was curious if anyone knew how to interpret this code and figure out the date the photo was taken or printed.
Either would be fine:
Sample Code #1:
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Is there a Windows program to edit photo time stamp in batch like in Google Photos? [duplicate]
I have 3000 photos taken this year (2017) on a camera which had the date & time set incorrectly so all these photos are stamped with a 2015 date.
I would like to change the time stamp on all of ...
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Use DateCreated for DateTaken (CreationTime) on a PNG using ExifTool
I have a load of PNG's that my wife wants to keep that have been captured from our Baby Monitor. The files are named for the date they were captured:
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dating photos by size of print
I have hundreds of photos I'd like to assign a year to and I am hoping to find a chart that would contain the year span prints were developed based on the size of the print such as 2 1/2 x 4 1/4, 3 1/...
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How do I find resources to date film rolls developed at an unknown time?
I have some film I'm going through, about six banana boxes developed over the last 20 years mainly, getting them all finally scanned. I find that I am getting pretty good at dating the rolls that went ...
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Why is the EXIF time different from the time the image was captured?
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S that I use to capture geotagged photos. The Android application GPS Essentials is used to collect the images and GPS Essentials names the images with the Date and time (...
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How can I organise collections by date in Lightroom?
I often go walking with my camera and I like to collect the photos from each walk into a collection. I name the collection after the place I've walked, and it ultimately contains any photos I took, ...
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Any tool that would retrieve the ORIGINAL date a photo was created on even after it has been processed?
As mentioned in the title, sometimes the desktop or mobile application used to process/edit a photo, especially if it has been moved, copied, re-saved, etc.. would cause the very original date of the ...
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How can I show the oldest and newest image with ExifTool in Windows?
Is there any way to show the name of the oldest and the newest image in the current folder with ExifTool, based on the shooting date?
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How to use exiftool to write date tags according to file path?
I need to set the exif date tag of a bunch of photos stored with the following hierarchy:
YEAR/MONTH/DAY/IMG_something.JPG
How could I do it easily with exiftool?
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Can I make my Nikon DSLR put photos in separate folders per day?
When I take photos, I want my camera to create a folder for that specific date, and when I take photos on another day, it'll have a folder for that specific day, and so on. During thtransfer of my ...
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Software to cross-check EXIF date taken vs date in filename?
I have a library of about 25,000 photos (JPGs). I have been maintaining the library so that the date taken in the EXIF data reflects the actual capture date, but I keep finding exceptions where I've ...
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Is it possible to view by date in Picasa?
I'm running Picasa on MacOS, and I can see all of my photos by person and by folder. But can I view them by date? Ideally I'd like to see 'virtual folders' by date YYYY/MM/DD like:
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Is "Date Taken" Exif data possible on .PNG file, and is it possible to copy "Date Modified" to "Date Taken"?
I want to change the Exif data for some .PNG files so that they have the "Date Taken" tag. Is it possible to use that tag on .PNG files?
Is it possible to copy the "Date Modified" date to the "Date ...
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Why does my point and shoot camera lose the date/time when I turn it off?
My point and shoot camera used to keep the date when turned off. Now, every time I turn it on,
I have to reset the date and time. What could cause this?
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Is there a problem with capture date in Nikon P340?
I have a P340 and, as far as I'm aware, the date has always been set correctly.
However on New Years eve I shot a number of pictures at a New years party. Pictures taken from about 7 pm to around 1 ...
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How to deduplicate and centralize pictures from multiple cameras? [duplicate]
I have several cameras, some retired and/or broken, some working, some not. Their pictures are scattered across several computers, possibly with duplicates, and the original SD cards. The naming ...
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Can I batch set the date on Canon RAW files with a tool? [duplicate]
I have just noticed my cameras date has been wrong for the last month.
However it is consistently wrong, so if I work out (or guess) the date and time of the first photograph, is there a tool that ...
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How to shift EXIF date/time created by time in days, hours, minutes?
I have two camera bodies, I was shooting while on vacation, when I downloaded the photos to lightroom, one body was set to the correct date/time, the other was off by 722 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes.
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Filtering by date in Lightroom
In Lightroom 3, using the metadata filter with one of the columns set to Date in hierarchical mode, I can easily narrow down the date range. I can easily get all photos from 2010, or all October 2010 ...
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