Unless I am missing something obvious there is a tag called Create Date that appears in both or either of the EXIF and XMP metadata sections?
Why is this?
I thought the tag names were unique across all sections. I am obviously wrong. Is there an explanation for newbies that you can point me towards please?
Regards
- Paul
There are many tags which have duplicate names. One main example is the XMP-exif group (http://www.exiftool.org/TagNames/XMP.html#exif) which are often simply copies of EXIF tags.
As for why
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png)
Standards (https://xkcd.com/927/)
Actually, ExifTool attempts to make the tag names consistent across different metadata types. This allows information to be more easily converted from one metadata type to another.
- Phil
Hm. I am beginning to think I shouldn't have asked! :)
- Paul