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ExifTool => Bug Reports / Feature Requests => Topic started by: herb on July 01, 2017, 06:10:39 AM

Title: exif2iptc.args and iptc2exif.args
Post by: herb on July 01, 2017, 06:10:39 AM
Hello Phil,

since some days I do some tests with Exiftool argument files. I use version 10.58 on a Windows 7 system.
I think that the 2 argument files exif2iptc.args and iptc2exif.args do not properly take care of the timezone tags introduced with latest Exif standard.

Therefore I would like to propose the following changes:
exif2iptc.args:
The 2 lines:
-IPTC:TimeCreated < EXIF:DateTimeOriginal
-IPTC:DigitalCreationTime < EXIF:CreateDate

should be replaced with following:
-IPTC:TimeCreated < Composite:SubSecDateTimeOriginal
-IPTC:DigitalCreationTime < Composite:SubSecCreateDate

because the Exif tags do not contain timezone values, but the Composite tags do.

iptc2exif.args:
The following 2 lines should be added in order to write/create the Exif timezone tags:
-EXIF:OffsetTimeOriginal < IPTC:TimeCreated
-EXIF:OffsetTimeDigitized < IPTC:DigitalCreationTime


Thanks for your comments in advance.
Best regards
Herb
Title: Re: exif2iptc.args and iptc2exif.args
Post by: Phil Harvey on July 01, 2017, 07:50:16 AM
Hi Herb,

Thanks for mentioning this.  You're right, I hadn't updated the IPTC conversions yet.  I'll do that for the next release.

- Phil