Importing Pictures from a digital camera using f-spot or gthumb fails to preserve creation date timestamp

[philinux]

Using kernel 2.6.24-19-generic

Connected camera via usb. Imported photo's via F-spot or Gthumb only to find that the date modified of all the pics was todays date, ie the system date/time on my pc, and not the date the picture was taken. Previously files imported in gutsy had the date taken as the creation date from the camera files.
Within the properties window under the image tab is the correct taken date.

[Felix (qqq)]

Just like to confirm everything above, only fails on 8.04, worked on earlier versions

My camera is a Canon powershot A710IS

I also tried retrieving the date stamps from the EXIF data using jhead but this didn't seem to work, it just retrieved the system date from when the photos were imported from the camera by F-spot. F-spot seems aware of the date the photo was taken as it imports but overwrites it subsequently by the system date ( and time ).

Also at the moment it seems impossible to access the camera directly through the USB, see #242644

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

using "gphoto2 --get-all-files" on a command line gives the same issue, that seems to be a libgphoto2 bug, see bug #49906