Photos published to Flickr have the wrong date/time.

[Preston L. Bannister]

Binary package hint: shotwell

For example, this picture was taken at 3:16pm PST, but Flickr thinks the photo was taken at 10:16pm.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreadedhill/5557161777/meta/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: shotwell 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 24 20:39:07 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

It looks to me that Flickr is using the EXIF Date/Time (original) field instead of the other two (Digitized, Modified). For most cameras, this is the same value.

What time does Shotwell display in its Basic Information pane for this photo? Did you modify it in Shotwell using Adjust Date/Time?

[Preston L. Bannister (preston-bannister)]

Shotwell shows 3:16PM (the correct time).

I did* not* modify the date/time.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Jim Nelson <email address hidden> wrote:

> It looks to me that Flickr is using the EXIF Date/Time (original) field
> instead of the other two (Digitized, Modified). For most cameras, this
> is the same value.
>
> What time does Shotwell display in its Basic Information pane for this
> photo? Did you modify it in Shotwell using Adjust Date/Time?
>
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[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

One more thing to check.

You'll need to find the file and open a console in that directory. Run this from the console:

$ exiv2 -pa f.jpg | grep DateTime

The question is, do the dates that come up match Flickr's or are they different?

It's possible this is a bug with Flickr.

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

(I forgot to say that you should replace "f.jpg" with the name of your photo file.)

[Preston L. Bannister (preston-bannister)]

preston@mercury:~/Pictures/2011/03/24$ exiv2 -pa IMG_0841.JPG | grep -i date
Exif.Image.DateTime Ascii 20 2011:03:24
15:16:38
Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal Ascii 20 2011:03:24
15:16:38
Exif.Photo.DateTimeDigitized Ascii 20 2011:03:24
15:16:38

Also I tried uploading the photo directly through the Flickr upload web
page. The uploaded photo ended up with the proper date/time.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Jim Nelson <email address hidden> wrote:

> (I forgot to say that you should replace "f.jpg" with the name of your
> photo file.)
>
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[Lucas Beeler (lucas-yorba)]

Hi Preston,

Could you attach to this bug report a copy of your original photo -- just as it came from your camera's memory card? I can't use the JPEG you uploaded to Flickr because Flickr does server-side post-processing of photos after you upload them. This means that the photo available on Flickr doesn't necessarily have the same EXIF segment as the original that came off of your camera.

Regards,
Lucas

[Preston L. Bannister (preston-bannister)]

Done.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Lucas Beeler <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hi Preston,
>
> Could you attach to this bug report a copy of your original photo --
> just as it came from your camera's memory card? I can't use the JPEG you
> uploaded to Flickr because Flickr does server-side post-processing of
> photos after you upload them. This means that the photo available on
> Flickr doesn't necessarily have the same EXIF segment as the original
> that came off of your camera.
>
> Regards,
> Lucas
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
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[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

Ticketed upstream at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3426 .

[Shaswat Nimesh (shaswatnimesh)]

It depends on the timezone too, So kindly Check your time zone once !.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Bug Watch Updater <
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> ** Changed in: shotwell
> Status: Unknown => New
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742225
>
> Title:
> Photos published to Flickr have the wrong date/time.
>
> Status in Shotwell:
> New
> Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: shotwell
>
> For example, this picture was taken at 3:16pm PST, but Flickr thinks the
> photo was taken at 10:16pm.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreadedhill/5557161777/meta/
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: shotwell 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Mar 24 20:39:07 2011
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
> (20100429)
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: shotwell
>

--
Shaswat Nimesh

[Preston L. Bannister (preston-bannister)]

I do not understand the last comment. I did notice that the error seems to correspond to the timezone offset.

The timezone on my laptop and on my camera is properly set to PST.

[Joseph Bylund (joseph-bylund)]

@ Preston, any chance you can try this again with the current version of Shotwell, I attempted to replicate this but it seemed to work properly for me (upload showed 3:16pm, Eastern, but I'm in the Eastern timezone).