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[Phil Harvey]

Read again the documentation that StarGeek showed you.

Do you understand the difference between "real" and "system" tags?

- Phil

[lumiere]

Read again the documentation that StarGeek showed you.

Do you understand the difference between "real" and "system" tags?

- Phil

No, I don't. Where can I read about it ? Googling didn't help much to be honest.

[Phil Harvey]

The pseudo System tags are explained in the second paragraph here, and are listed in the table on that page.  Use the -G1 option when extracting to see which tags are System tags.

System tags are stored in the file system.  Composite tags are derived from the values of other tags.  All other tags are "real", and are stored in the file itself.

- Phil

[lumiere]

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$ exiftool -time:all -a -G0:1 -s ./Image-ExifTool-12.30/t/images/Panasonic.jpg
[File:System]   FileModifyDate                  : 2006:01:04 19:02:27+00:00
[File:System]   FileAccessDate                  : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
[File:System]   FileInodeChangeDate             : 2021:12:27 23:01:57+00:00
[EXIF:IFD0]     ModifyDate                      : 2004:08:28 15:55:46
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  DateTimeOriginal                : 2004:08:28 15:55:46
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  CreateDate                      : 2004:08:28 15:55:46

So the first 3 tags are the system tags (I would say file attributes) and the last 3 are the "real"  tags ?

[Phil Harvey]

Yes.