[digikam] [Bug 301357] HUB : Support incomplete dates (without time, day, month), like TIFF DateTime supports

[Ron Braithwaite]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301357

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Version|2.6.0   |8.1.0
   Platform|Debian testing  |macOS (DMG)
 OS|Linux   |macOS
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--- Comment #14 from Ron Braithwaite  ---
I need to search for a missing EXIF DateTimeOriginal field and there doesn't
appear to be a way to do that.

Many images do not have a value for that field and being able to search and
find those images so the field can be filled in is essential.

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[digikam] [Bug 301357] HUB : Support incomplete dates (without time, day, month), like TIFF DateTime supports

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--- Comment #13 from fredd...@yahoo.de ---
Answer to the third question:
My workflow is now:
(0. Remove complete date if previously set in digikam)
1. Set correct incomplete date using  exiftool. (See
http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/faq.html#Q5)
  exiftool -xmp:dateTimeOriginal="1980:09" -xmp:CreateDate="1980:09"
"image.jpg"
2. Import image file into digikam. Dates are ignored as invalid and not added
to database.
3. Add tags to image and write them to image file. Only metadata from database
are written to the image file, dates are not affected.

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--- Comment #12 from fredd...@yahoo.de ---
Is there any news about this issue? I am also affected, and before I invest
significant time working through my scanned photos to add dates (or having to
rework them later when this issue is fixed) I want to decide for the right
tool. And I would be sad to work-around it with exiftool instead of staying
with digikam.

I think the fact that specifications of Exif/Xmp allow incomplete dates is a
very strong point that the GUI would better reflect this.

If I set the correct incomplete dates with exiftool, can I then later continue
using digikam to manage these photos? Suppose I import these photos (with
incomplete set by exiftool) into the digikam database, how does it handle these
dates? When I update some tags and write them into the image files, will the
dates be affected or overwritten?

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[digikam] [Bug 301357] HUB : Support incomplete dates (without time, day, month), like TIFF DateTime supports

[Aleksej via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #11 from Aleksej  ---
> This entry is illegible for GSoC 2016 project :

I think you mean “eligible” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eligible , not
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/illegible

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