Re: [tlug] downloading pictures

[Mike Mazur <mmazur@example.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:06:53 +0900
Nick Bikkal <nickbikkal@example.com> wrote:

> I have a problem downloading pictures from my digital cameras to
> Ubuntu. I lose the dates; they get changed to the moment I download
> from the camera. Is there a way to fix this setting?

Chances are the correct dates are still stored in the EXIF headers in
the images. You can use jhead[1] to reset the file timestamps to the
dates in the EXIF headers.

Hope that helps,
Mike

[1] `apt-get install jhead` works on Ubuntu.
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/