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marchyman / GeoTag

Image geo location editing for macOS Ventura (13) and later. Instructions and a .dmg of the current version are on the application home page.
https://www.snafu.org/GeoTag/
MIT License
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Date/Time #26

Closed anvme closed 4 years ago

anvme commented 4 years ago

Images have different types of date/time. Can you add them to the list of available to edit? Creation, modify

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marchyman commented 4 years ago

Created, Modified, and Last opened are file system timestamps; they are not part of image metadata. The image specific timestamps are ModifyDate, DateTimeOriginal (when the image was digitized) and CreateDate (when the digitized image was written). The last two timestamps are usually the same.

GeoTag used to update ALL dates all the time. That changed after complaints were received from users. Currently it updates DateTimeOriginal and CreateDate and then only when changed. I believe this is the best solution for most people.

If you want the file dates to match the image metadata dates you can use exiftool. The command is

exiftool "-FileCreateDate<CreateDate" "-FileModifyDate<CreateDate" image-name

using . in place of image name will change all images in the current folder.