Call me naive, but why is it that the timestamps are automatically
altered at all? I'd expect them not to be altered at all, unless I use
the "Adjust time" tool. As far as I know, no other photo program does
anything like this. Adobe Lightroom, Picasa, digiKam, etc, don't do
anything like this, even as a feature, right?

I'm confused why anybody would even want the /option/ to do this.

Michael Lissner
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Steve McGrath wrote on 11/04/2009 02:57 PM:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 23:26 +0100, Silvano wrote:
>   
>> It's obvious to me that the F-Spot maintainers are more interested on
>> fancy features (rolls support, extensions, rating...) than on fixing
>> this hated feature (because unexpected, because undocumented...).
>>
>> In my opinion, that's for them a desired feature (if not, they would
>> have never bothered to implement it) and therefore no urgent fix is
>> required. They probably think, that documenting is a nice to have...
>>
>> I hope that you have luck and this feature gets fixed some day. I even
>> offered once to fix it, but one of the maintainers told me that it was
>> in his plans doing it. Repeating requests for that might convince them
>> to fix it :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>     Silvano
>>
>>     
> From my (admittedly limited) understanding, the developers are still
> trying to figure out the best way of handling timestamp modification.
>
> My proposed solution for the time being would be to simply offer users a
> choice, even it's buried in GConf, as to whether F-Spot should modify
> timestamps or leave them alone. This should be alongside the option of
> having F-Spot not touch metadata at all, and store tags and such only in
> the DB.
>
> Having not looked at the codebase myself, I don't know what the
> underlying problems are that have kept this issue open for over 3 years,
> but frankly, something needs to be done.
>
> Ubuntu, which includes F-Spot as it's default photo-manager, has this
> issue marked as a high importance bug. Some people have even been
> pushing for F-Spot to be removed from the default Ubuntu install until
> the issue is resolved. I don't want to see that happen; I'd rather that
> Ubuntu ship a version of F-Spot patched to leave timestamps alone, at
> least as a stopgap measure until this is dealt with in F-Spot.
>
> The Ubuntu bug is
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/175191
>
> Regards,
>
>
>   
>
>
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