Darktable v3.1.0~git1054.bdee4ad46
Curious thing in lighttable - hover over an image and the black tooltip pops up with the filename and image information. Great! But (sorry, I’m in the US!) the date format is reversed for me. The ‘image information’ sidebar shows the date for the selected image as mm/dd/yyyy which is nice, but the tooltip shows dd/mm/yyyy. Is there any way to correct this?
I would expect this field to respect the locale information of the user.
Thanks for the great program.
Hi!
I think that infoline is configureable in preferences. currently the date line is:
$(EXIF_DAY)/$(EXIF_MONTH)/$(EXIF_YEAR) $(EXIF_HOUR):$(EXIF_MINUTE):$(EXIF_SECOND)
you can change it to something weird like:
$(EXIF_MONTH)/$(EXIF_DAY)//$(EXIF_YEAR) $(EXIF_HOUR):$(EXIF_MINUTE):$(EXIF_SECOND)
Joke:
what should also be configureable is for US to use normal units and normal date standards. 
Is this in the global preferences dialog somewhere? I’m not seeing it in my version.
I did find this in ~/.config/darktable/darktablerc that might fix it:
plugins/lighttable/thumbnail_tooltip_pattern=<b>$(FILE_NAME).$(FILE_EXTENSION)</b>$(NL)$(EXIF_DAY)/$(EXIF_MONTH)/$(EXIF_YEAR) $(EXIF_HOUR):$(EXIF_MINUTE):$(EXIF_SECOND)$(NL)$(EXIF_EXPOSURE) s • f/$(EXIF_APERTURE) • $(EXIF_FOCAL_LENGTH) mm • ISO $(EXIF_ISO)
I’ll give it a try in the morning and let you know.
I would like to know which preferences you were referring to though.
Aw, the rest of the world just has the dates wrong! (I jest - the US seems pigheaded about some standards. Just gotta be different!)
Thanks
It’s in preferences dialog window, first open tab then lighttable section.
Ah, got it! Thanks.
I was confused by the truncated view of the pattern text field. I forgot I needed to scroll horizontally to see the whole line of text. I wish the GUI could be modified to make viewing or editing long fields like that more obvious.
Thanks again!