DateTimeDigitized

[asta]

Hi,

I understand that this will look a bit strange but can someone from the staff verify that "datetimedigitized" in exif-metadata really shows the correct information when extracted with exiftool (I think so).
But when I look at one of my tif-files via a different program I dont get the same date/time.

Why Im looking into this is a long story but I was quite sure the problem was in the "other" program.
Reported this as a bug but their answer is "there is no bug / the error is in exiftool".

thanks in advance.

[Phil Harvey]

Reported this as a bug but their answer is "there is no bug / the error is in exiftool".

This is virtually never true.   One must remember that ExifTool has had 12 years to shake out the bugs from its EXIF code.

It is possible that this is just a misunderstanding.  If you consult the ExifTool tag name documentation you will see that the EXIF tag you are calling datetimedigitized is called CreateDate by ExifTool.  Could that be causing some confusion?

- Phil

[asta]

Yes, thats it I think!

But if so, I have to ask what I update when I update "datetimedigitized".
I set datetimedigitized to datetimeoriginal and I can see that its a different tag (not CreateDate) thats updated (the updated tag is named datetimedigitized).

[Phil Harvey]

If you extract the information with the -G or -G1 option you will see where it is coming from.  And you can use these group names when writing to write to specific locations.  eg) "-exif:createdate=now"

- Phil

[asta]

Ok, I will check that.
Thanks for the answers.