On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:35:08PM -0400, Tom Lesser wrote: > Hi All: > > (I asked a similar question a few months ago and got replies agreeing > that this is an issue for some of us, but got no easy solutions, so I'm > asking again, in case a new solution exists.)
To summarize the earlier discussion: The FAT/FAT32 specifications explicitly allow leaving the creation date unspecified on a file, and only setting one date field (the modified date). This is primarily intended for embedded operating systems, etc., which only support one date in the file information. [One such embedded OS, I suspect, would be that used in the *ist-D] On more sophisticated operating systems, this is supposed to be treated as if the creation date were the same as the modified date. > When looking at PEF files from my *istD in List View on a Mac, it > always shows the Creation Date as "December 31, 1903 7:00PM" and the > actual Creation Date appears in the Modified Date field. The List View is displaying the empty date field as the day before the Mac epoch. My guess would be that it's ignoring an error return from a "Get Creation Date" function, and just interpreting the value returned (probably 0 or -1) as a date. > If I select a PEF file in the Finder, and do a Get Info command, it > shows the Creation Date as "--" (two hyphens) and shows the actual > Creation Date in the Modified Date field. The Finder recognises there is no creation date set, and shows "--" > If I open a PEF in Photoshop CS (select OK to create a TIF file) and > then go to File > File Info, it shows the correct creation date in the > Date Time filed in the Camera Data 1 pane. That's coming from the EXIF data in the file, not from the date fields in the directory structure. > Is there an easy fix (software upgrade, Photoshop action or other > software) that will put the correct data in the correct fields in all > of these "views?" Not that I'm aware of. It would be fairly simple to write a little utilty that set an empty creation date to the modified date, but I can't help you there - I don't have a Mac.
