It seems that the Picasa API (and for that matter the website) is reporting incorrect timestamps.
For example: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_3SnUgJYcD6T8mLG0trADtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?full-exif=true If you look down the EXIF data you'll see a number of different date/ times: Date - Nov 4, 2011 4:07:57 AM Date and Time (Original) - 2011:11:04 11:07:57 (this is correct) Date and Time - 2011:11:13 18:25:24 Of course, further down the list is: Time Zone Offset: -7, -8, -7 which seems to be the offset from Greenwich Mean Time to Pacific Standard Time. A few questions: 1. Where does Google get this time zone offset or time calculation? I set the time on the camera properly before taking the photo (the photo was taken in Spain, but I live in California), and no location information was provided for the photo. This seems like a pretty big assumption on Google's part about which timezone the photo was taken in, and that the camera had not been adjusted before hand. 2. More importantly, does anyone know of a way in the API to get the original date and time that was recorded by the camera, rather than this other one that Google seems to be guessing about? I'd rather at least use what the camera said, even if it is possibly wrong than use some arbitrary guess that's almost definitely wrong. It seems from my research that only this modified time is available via the API. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
