Use EXIF metadata to order photos by date and time of shooting

[Frederik Elwert]

The "Browse by date" feature for photos seems to use the mtime of the photos. So if you once copy your whole photo collection to a new location, all photos appear under the same date.

Instead, Elisa should make use of EXIF data in the photo files to get the correct date when the photo actually was taken.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Depends on #233010

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

I believe it already does but only with some more recent version of a certain GStreamer element. I also think that this element is shipped with Ubuntu Intrepid. What operating system do you use Frederik?

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy, so unfortunately I cannot verify this. Anyone else?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu Jaunty.
What's sorted in the database as "shot_time" is in fact the file's modification time.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Bumping importance, this renders the whole picture library pretty much useless with large collections.

[Guillaume Emont (guijemont)]

This used to work with the old metadata pipeline, provided metadatademux is available

[Guillaume Emont (guijemont)]

Proposed fix, with some explanations:
https://www.moovida.com/quality/review/request/%3C1255712925.7267.88.camel%40guijemont-devbox%3E

[Jon Elofson (jon-elofson)]

I am looking forward to this. Just installed moovida last night on Karmic. It's great!, but I noticed all my photos were listed under November, 2009. Luckily my folders include a month and year.

[laura burbaite (lburbaite)]

Verified
Tested in [pre release] 1.0.9-rc1.
EXIF metadata is used to order photos by date of shooting