Suggestion : Add photo's with original creation date

Tommy2412

Joined: 2004-09-11
Posts: 2
Posted: Mon, 2004-09-13 11:54

Hi there,

I have installed this great packet and configured it a month ago, but I still got a troubleshoot that I can't seem to complete...

I would like to add photos to an album (URL/upload/...) and display them with the original creation date/time. Gallery automatically takes the date/time when I upload the pictures...
There are 3 possibilitys to display a caption :

- Leave blank if no caption is specified.
- Set photo captions with original filenames.
- Set photo captions with file creation times.

The last option takes the date of the upload ... Is it possible to create here a 4th option 'Set photo captions with file original creation date.' ?

Perhaps there is a workaround available now ? I really like to know it then... I know that there is an option to set date/time individually for each photo, but when you got to thet for 500 photo's it will take to much time...

Thanks in advance !

Kind regards,
Tommy2412

;)

 
vjl323
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Joined: 2002-12-19
Posts: 39
Posted: Mon, 2004-09-20 15:36

Great idea! I just realized that the timestamp wasn't from the image itself this weekend [i had never used that feature before], and was surprised to see timestamps at night of images taken in the day time. I then realized it was the not when the file was put on someone's computer, nor when the image itself was created, but rather, the time the file was uploaded the a server running gallery.

I think it makes sense to have this option - esp. when there's a series of images, and having a date/time stamp makes even better sense.

/vjl/