pyexiv2

feature request : optionally preserve file timestamps

Bug #461840 reported by fredp on 2009-10-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pyexiv2	Fix Released	Wishlist	Olivier Tilloy	pyexiv2 0.2.2 "Holiday"

Bug Description

Image.writeMetadata() updates the timestamp of the image file.

It may be desirable to keep the original one instead. Currently this needs to be done in user code, using file stats or Exif date/time.

It would be useful to have an option to writeMetadata() that does it automatically, similar to the '-k' option of the exiv2 utility.

Related branches

lp://qastaging/~osomon/pyexiv2/preserve_timestamps (Merged)

lp://qastaging/pyexiv2/0.2.x

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I. Form (iform) wrote on 2010-05-26:

This would be a very nice feature. +1

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote on 2010-05-26:

This could probably be implemented as an optional "preserve_timestamp" parameter to ImageMetadata.write() (False by default, to keep backward compatibility).
Note however that this functionality isn't exposed in libexiv2 itself, it is build on top of it in the exiv2 command-line utility.

Changed in pyexiv2:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) on 2010-05-26

Changed in pyexiv2:
assignee:	nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) on 2010-05-26

Changed in pyexiv2:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) on 2010-05-26

Changed in pyexiv2:
milestone:	none → 0.2.2

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) on 2010-05-27

Changed in pyexiv2:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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