To millisecond or not ...

jogiwer · 2022-11-12 01:45

some history

Older pictures didn't have such thing as millisecond in there tags. But hardware is evoling. And so there are more and more jpg with this information.

By now I did not change my renaming scheme. But with the first pictures of a friend where the filenames wheren't just numbered but also had the timestamp in there name I had to use these nameparts in some cases.

There are also pictures with no numbering at all but just the timestamp in there name. And with some not-jpg-files the meta-info was harder to get I took these parts.

What I found out

Scanning the options for the auto-preview behaviour I saw the formatstring for date-values and the possibility to specify milliseconds by 'zzz'.

What did happen

'.000' got appended
this was also done for pictures without this info in 'SubSecTime*'
for jpg-files with these tags (SubSecTime) the ':EXIF_Date:' won't show these values

What's next?

I would like the milliseconds added to the resulting string only if they were set in the picture. So it wouldn't help to add this functionalty to ':EXIF_Date:' because the format pattern will be applied in every case.

As ReNamer can access the metatags I would hope that the missing values are also reachable. So here a dedicated tag-name would come in handy!

den4b · 2022-12-10 22:29

We'll have to wait until one of mainstream EXIF libraries is properly integrated into ReNamer.

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