HEIC - Date Taken not working

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Re: HEIC - Date Taken not working

Postby caveman007 » Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:59 pm

appreciate the quick response.
when i look into the properties of both a JPG and an HEIC file (under "Details" and "Date Taken"), they both seem to miss the "seconds" (e.g. 9/20/2019 4:10 PM) but obviously the JPG file has it and it even shows up in the "Item Date" column.
does this make sense?
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Re: HEIC - Date Taken not working

Postby Admin » Wed Feb 10, 2021 12:16 am

Hi, Windows removes all seconds for some reason...
BRU will not show seconds (or set them to 0) for time info it gets directly from Windows like Item Date, but it will show seconds for dates it gets directly via EXIF (jpg) or from the file system (created / modified / accessed date).
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Re: HEIC - Date Taken not working

Postby caveman007 » Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:53 pm

so how do you explain this - i take the HEIC file in windows that supposedly doesn't have the seconds info, convert it to JPEG and now I do have the Date Taken info with seconds.
the seconds info is somewhere in the HEIC file obviously as it pops up when the HEIC file is converted to JPEG.
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Re: HEIC - Date Taken not working

Postby Admin » Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:16 am

Yes, but if you check, Windows does not show seconds for date taken either when in JPG format.
BRU does because it gets date taken directly from the JPG EXIF and not from Windows for JPG files.
I think it would be good for BRU not to rely on Windows!
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Re: HEIC - Date Taken not working

Postby caveman007 » Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:58 am

Yes. Windows doesnt show seconds for either file type but my point is this info us contained somewhere in the HEIC file and so there’s got to be a way to extract it.
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Re: HEIC - Date Taken not working

Postby Admin » Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:22 am

Yes, it's in there. BRU relies on Windows to provide that info and Windows does not provide the seconds, unfortunately.
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