Using Digikam 8.3.0 on Windows.
My usual setting is to write metadata (ratings and tags) only to xmp sidecar files. Sometimes I want to write the tags and ratings into my jpeg files.
For this I change the bevavior to write to sidecar and file (not really necessary to reproduce the bug)
and select Item-> Write Metadata to file (this causes the bug)
This operation erroneously adds two hours to the image create date. My timezone is UTC+2, that might be the origin of the two hours.
This can be repeated an arbitrary number of times and always adds two hours.
This seems to be a bug. Any ideas on how to circumvent it? Some setting maybe?
Thanks! Do you think this version is safe for daily use in terms of it not damaging my photos or do you think it’s better to wait for the stable release?
I’m on Arch Linux running digiKam-8.4.0 and seem to have this problem. I can’t exactly figure out what’s going on.
My system is set to use Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7). My photos were showing the right “camera created date” time under the thumbnail in my local timezone. Upon adding captions, the photos switch to 14 hours later, as if Digikam is applying a time zone offset in the wrong direction. I attempted to fix the time with the Item > Adjust Date and Time tool but the result is inconsistent and always wrong. Some of my photos I have gotten to show the “created date” in UTC, other times as UTC+7 (but should be UTC-7).
Wow this bug is actually pretty terrible. It seems the photos get their camera date advanced by 7 hours every time I edit the caption text. So some of my photos now appear days ahead of where they should. Needless to say, the album I was working on captions for is now hopelessly out of order and a mess!
With raw files I don’t see this behaviour (then again, I told digikam to never write to raw files…)
Anyway, the best way to report a bug is in the digikam bug tracker; you’ll be prompted to provide all relevant information.
You will need to create an account there, though.