Re: sorting by time instead of filename

Hi,

On Apr/04/2007, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Another approach is to use exiftool to set the mtime on the file, and
> let gqview's sort-by-date do what I want:
> 
>   exiftool '-DateTimeOriginal>FileModifyDate' dir
>         Use the original date from the meta information to set the same
>         file's filesystem modification date for all images in a directory.
>         (Note that "-TagsFromFile @" is assumed if no other -TagsFromFile
>         is specified when redirecting information as in this example.)
> 
> This could also be used to adjust clock skew, similar to qphotosort.
> Probably qphotosort could grow an option to set mtime rather than create
> symlinks.

"spam" (sorry, but maybe it interesting for some people in this list):
yes, i can do it if somebody would use :-)
My experience is that mtime is frequently lost (backups, burn CD, send
by mail, post to webpage, etc.). Not the name :-)

Also the name has some good thing. I can have some directories:
barcelona/carles
barcelona/john

Then:
barcelona/all

with the photos renamed to YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS_some suffix.JPG
so, "some suffix" could be carles or john. And then I can know who shoot
the photo :)

(everything ordered)

(end of spam)

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