ZZI think we need support for time zones. I would like to see a time zone time line, sort of like an audio editor, where you can chop the time line into segments and assign a time zone, and a clock adjustment, a fudge factor, to each segment. You could stretch the end of a segment to to include more or less photos.
Imagine you have three cameras, a primary that is adjusted properly, a secondary, where you have left it in the wrong time zone, and a third where the time is just wrong. When you import the pictures and enter the time adjustment mode you might see a list of pictures like this: thumbnail tz EXIF time resulting pictures line time fudge time thumbnail 1 tz 1 2008.12.31 23:59:00 0 2008.12.31 23:59:00 thumbnail 2 tz 1 2008.12.31 23:59:01 0 2008.12.31 23:59:01 thumbnail 3 tz 1 2008.12.31 23:59:02 0 2008.12.31 23:59:02 thumbnail 4 tz 2 2008.12.31 23:39:03 +20min 2008.12.31 23:59:03 thumbnail 5 tz 2 2008.12.31 23:59:04 0 2008.12.31 23:59:04 thumbnail 5 tz 2 2008.12.31 23:59:05 0 2008.12.31 23:59:05 You can drag your time zone line to adjust that as needed, and you can enter fudge values as needed to get the pictures in the right order. As the resulting time expands, you might have other picture start to appear and intermingle with your original set, so you could see any overlap. I guess this works best if a single person is shooting so you only have one picture at each point in time. Combining pictures from multiple shooters gets interesting. We already have the pictures, and EXIF time. The database needs to track the time zone and the fudge factor for each picture. The fudge factor can be reset to zero if the user allows EXIF updates. I don't know how hard it is to build a nice GUI to manipulate the time zone and time fudge. Thanks, -- Steve Herber [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
