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[DELETEACCOUNT]

Hey Phil! Hope you still read this post...

Will there be some kind of Shortcut function for all the System Times in Future versions of ExifTool? like the "-AllDates" (changes all EXIF Dates)

[Phil Harvey]

There are no plans to add a shortcut for the system date/time tags, but you can always create your own user-defined shortcuts.  See the Shortcuts section of the sample ExifTool config file for details.

- Phil

[DELETEACCOUNT]

Super!

one more question:

These are the times/dates of a picture:

FileModifyDate                                    : 2004:08:19 14:44:27+01:00
FileAccessDate                                    : 2004:08:19 14:44:27+01:00
FileCreateDate                                    : 2004:08:19 14:44:27+01:00
ModifyDate                                         : 2004:08:19 14:44:27
DateTimeOriginal                                : 2004:08:19 14:44:27
CreateDate                                         : 2004:08:19 14:44:27


The ExifTimes (ModifyDate, DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate) are the exact times/dates the picture was taken (local time in that country that day)
on the Mac, the finder displays the System times... so because of the Time Zone it says +1:00 which is not the local time the picture was taken.

So is there something that i can just delete that TimeZone information? so that it looks like:

FileModifyDate                                    : 2004:08:19 14:44:27
FileAccessDate                                    : 2004:08:19 14:44:27
FileCreateDate                                    : 2004:08:19 14:44:27
ModifyDate                                         : 2004:08:19 14:44:27
DateTimeOriginal                                : 2004:08:19 14:44:27
CreateDate                                         : 2004:08:19 14:44:27

Thanks!

[Phil Harvey]

I don't understand.  ExifTool always displays timezone information if it is available, and this can't be deleted from the System tags because the system always knows the time zone.  The real unfortunate thing is that the timezone isn't stored in the EXIF tags (this is a BIG oversight in the EXIF specification).

But if you just want to remove the timezone from the displayed information, you could create a user-defined Composite tag to do this.  Then you could have a Composite:FileModifyDate tag which didn't have a timezone, and this tag would be displayed instead of the System:FileModifyDate tag unless you used the -a option (in which case both would be displayed).

- Phil