Heic Tags been deleted

Started by Willcas.36, March 30, 2023, 02:27:16 PM

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Willcas.36

Original time tags from my heic file:

File Modification Date/Time    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40-04:00
File Access Date/Time          : 2023:03:30 13:59:52-04:00
File Inode Change Date/Time    : 2023:03:30 13:59:50-04:00
Modify Date                    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40
Date/Time Original              : 2023:03:27 16:39:40
Create Date                    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40
Offset Time                    : -04:00
Offset Time Original            : -04:00
Offset Time Digitized          : -04:00
Sub Sec Time Original          : 381
Sub Sec Time Digitized          : 381
GPS Date Stamp                  : 2023:03:27
Date Created                    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40
Profile Date Time              : 2022:01:01 00:00:00
Create Date                    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40.381-04:00
Date/Time Original              : 2023:03:27 16:39:40.381-04:00
Modify Date                    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40-04:00

My problem is that when I updated those time tags using this command:
exiftool -api QuickTimeUTC -m -r -api LargeFileSupport=1 -overwrite_original '-time:all<$CreateDate' -wm w DIR

I got something like this:

File Modification Date/Time    : 2023:03:30 14:19:34-04:00
File Access Date/Time          : 2023:03:30 14:19:36-04:00
File Inode Change Date/Time    : 2023:03:30 14:19:34-04:00
Modify Date                    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40
Date/Time Original              : 2023:03:27 16:39:40
Create Date                    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40
GPS Date Stamp                  : 2023:03:27
Date Created                    : 2023:03:27 16:39:40
Profile Date Time              : 2022:01:01 00:00:00

Losing some data like:

Offset Time                    : -04:00
Offset Time Original            : -04:00
Offset Time Digitized          : -04:00
Sub Sec Time Original          : 381
Sub Sec Time Digitized          : 381

Also losing the double "Create, Date/time Modify Dates" that where in UTC time (-04:00)

could someone explain to me why this happens, how can I change the dates without losing data and tags and does it mean for a heic file to have doble tag dates. PD: sorry for my English.

StarGeek

When you are writing to Time:All, this includes writing to the Composite tags, SubSecCreateDate, SubSecDateTimeOriginal, and SubSecModifyDate.  These tags write to the main three EXIF tags and their associated timezone (OffsetTime*) and subsecond (SubsecTime*) tags.  Because you are copying from just CreateDate, which by itself does not include the time zone and subseconds, then the related tags removed.

Try copying from SubSecCreateDate instead of CreateDate.
"It didn't work" isn't helpful. What was the exact command used and the output.
Read FAQ #3 and use that cmd
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