The problem is caused by the timezone setting being different at the android layer and at the ubuntu layer. The android layer seems to always use the UTC tz, and that is what it writes in the EXIF tags when it returns the encoded jpeg data to libhybris.
The attached branch fixes the problem by updating the EXIF tags with the correct timestamps in qtubuntu-camera, before saving the image to disk and notifying the apps. However according to ogra there might be a way to fix this by making sure we set the tz in android too when we set it in ubuntu. <ogra_> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo lxc-console -t0 -nandroid <ogra_> root@mako:/ # date <ogra_> Wed Sep 24 10:51:11 GMT 2014 <ogra_> root@mako:/ # setprop persist.sys.timezone Europe/Berlin <ogra_> root@mako:/ # date <ogra_> Wed Sep 24 12:52:15 CEST 2014 <ogra_> seems it uses the same notation <ogra_> (but to verify 100% one would likely need to check the source of bionic or so ) The tz names in bionic are as follows: https://gist.github.com/arpit/1035596 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371390 Title: pictures taken with camera have wrong timestamp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qtubuntu-camera/+bug/1371390/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
