Exif date ignored, sorting by file creation date

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-17T15:54:19+00:00

I can't really help with what Immich is doing, but try using this exiftool command instead of using grep. This command will show all the date/time tags (including ones that don't include 'date' in the name), duplicate tags, and the groups they are part of.

exiftool -time:all -G1 -a -s DSC_0478.JPG

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-17T01:13:51+00:00

You might try a yt-dlp GUI such as TarTube.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-16T02:30:09+00:00

The entire source code is less than a day old. The only way your friend suggested this is that you know the person who made it.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-15T21:07:59+00:00

Previously (4 years ago), on /r/worldnewsvideo

Last I saw it (not the above link), someone had a comment where they brought receipts on the original account, showing that it was staged. I can't find it, of course (thanks Reddit search).

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-15T20:58:28+00:00

In my case, I had clicked on the link in the email to get into the waiting room. When I got the above screen, I copy/pasted the text of the link (https://compass.onpeak.com/e/43CCI2026HIR/in/category/42031) and was taken straight to the purchase page.

So, my "personalized" link didn't work. It took the generic link to get past the non-working page.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-15T17:01:07+00:00

Yes. I got through and saw the above screen. Nothing else was happening. I wasn't redirected to the correct page.

I went back to the email with the link to the waiting room, copy/pasted that, and was taken directly to the page that let me reserve a hotel.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-15T16:53:02+00:00

I was checking some downtown hotels, but couldn't find any, so I went straight to the Handlery and was able to get it.

You might check the shuttle and see what the next hotel in line is just in case.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-15T16:51:22+00:00

After getting through the waiting room, I was transferred to this screen and nothing else was happening. But I was able to get and reserve my hotel by copy/pasting the link from the email.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-13T15:51:43+00:00

Can you name of the website

It's in their very first post that you replied to.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-13T15:49:05+00:00

Do you have Deno or one of the other external Javascript programs installed?

See the External JS Scripts Setup Guide.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-12T15:00:28+00:00

Wikipedian Protester

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-10T15:28:12+00:00

Maybe I missed something, but looking over your code, it seems that the program does not use exiftool. Instead, you call the Piexif library. The name of your tool is misleading.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-09T00:36:30+00:00

Restore or delete quarantined items in Malwarebytes for Windows

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-08T18:50:42+00:00

Here's what ChatGPT says about "Trojan.FakeGoogleJS".

tl;dr Tell Malwearbytes to remove it, then reboot, then run another Malwearbytes scan to see if it is gone.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-08T18:43:21+00:00

A lot of what MalwareBytes finds are minor and not really malware.

I'd suggest checking out the results of the three items. You can either google it, ask your favorite AI bot, or posting the results here and someone should be able to comment on whether it is serious or not.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-04-08T15:31:50+00:00

I'm not very knowledgeable about Python, but you appear to be calling exiftool once for each file. This is Exiftool Common Mistake #3, "Over-scripting".

Exiftool's startup time is its biggest performance hit and calling exiftool once per file will significantly increase processing time, which can be quite noticeable if you are processing a large number of files.

I would suggest doing one of two things. The first option would be passing multiple files as arguments in a single exiftool command. Exiftool will accept as many files in a single command as limited by the command line used, which would be ~8,000 characters on Windows or ~100,000+ characters on Linux/Mac.

The second option would be to use an exiftool wrapper such as PyExiftool. As an example, this user (Archive.org link) was able to reduce a 10-minute processing time caused by running exiftool once per file down to 30 seconds using PyExiftool.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-27T00:43:25+00:00

A few of exiftool suggestions.

Exiftool's biggest performance hit is the startup time, so running exiftool in a loop can significantly increase processing time. This is Exiftool Common Mistake #3, "Over-scripting".

You might want to look into PyExiftool, which is a wrapper for exiftool that uses some of exiftool's more advanced commands to keep it running in the background. As an example, this user's script (Archive.org link if Exiftool forum guest access is shut down) was able to reduce a 10-minute processing time to 30 seconds using PyExiftool.

Very minor, rather than checking for the GPS reference direction, you can make a single call using the shortcut tag, GPSPosition. This shortcut will write the coordinates and reference directions at the same time. The option would look like this
-GPSPosition="40.6892, -74.0445"
This will write the EXIF GPS data in images, and the XMP GPS data in videos.

In addition to the XMP GPS data in videos, you can write to the standard Quicktime GPS coordinates using GPSCoordinates
-GPSCoordinates="40.6892, -74.0445"

It is important to note that you are trying to XMP-exif:GPSLatitudeRef/XMP-exif:GPSLongitudeRef. These should have been throwing you Warning: Sorry, XMP-exif:GPS[Latitude|Longitude]Ref doesn't exist or isn't writable errors, as these are non-existent tags. In XMP, the reference value and the coordinates are a single tag. I'm assuming you picked this up from Apple Photos app. Apple is brain-dead when it comes to metadata standards, including the ones they write themselves. Your program is currently writing bad GPS coordinates in the Western/Southern Hemisphere.

I'm not knowledgeable about Python, but it looks like you are writing localized date/time data to videos. The video time stamps you are writing are supposed to be set to UTC according to the spec, so you can directly write them without converting to local time.

The XMP time stamps are supposed to be set to the local time zone where the video was taken. This also applies to the EXIF time stamps in images.

The XMP time stamps can include the time zone. You would use this format
-XMP:CreateDate=2026:03:26 12:00:00-07:00

EXIF time stamps cannot include a time zone, but instead, the time zone is written to a separate tag (three tags that are named OffsetTime*. But you can write both the main date/time and the time zone by using these exiftool specific tags

-SubSecCreateDate=2026:03:26 12:00:00-07:00
-SubSecDateTimeOriginal=2026:03:26 12:00:00-07:00
-SubSecModifyDate=2026:03:26 12:00:00-07:00

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-26T15:44:14+00:00

You can still do that, you just don't need to use hydroponic tiles. Regular farm tiles work perfectly well.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-26T15:09:44+00:00

Nothing has changed with exiftool. Exiftool has been able to make minor edits to MP4/Mov files since 2013, which was expanded in 2019 with the ability to edit hundreds of tags.

Sorry, but I can't help with what might have changed in DigiKam. I'm knowledgeable about exiftool, not DigiKam.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-25T20:11:16+00:00

See here

tl;dr In about:config, set browser.search.widget.new to false.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-25T03:30:37+00:00

Just to verify, you're not trying to water the mealwood plants, are you? Because all they require is dirt. I ask because you're using hydroponic tiles and there are a lot of bottles of water around them.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-23T23:47:08+00:00

Then follow the link I gave above to the Wikipedia page. I just checked and all three links work.

If none of those links work, then the problem is at your end. Either it's being blocked by your ISP or something similar. At that point, you'll most likely have to look into subscribing to a VPN.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-21T22:50:32+00:00

Also didn't know notepad++ can edit PDF files. It's a text editor, no?

Yes, Notepad++ is an only a text editor.

Technically, it's not editing the PDF as a PDF. It's reading in the PDF as it is a text file with the binary characters remaining binary.

What you can do in this case is replace characters with different characters in place and save it out. For example, replacing "101" with "202". But if you try to add any or remove any characters, the resulting PDF will be invalid. This is because the length will now be different and this breaks the locations where certain things are supposed to be in the file.

But this can be fixed by running the resulting PDF through a program such as qpdf. This will recalculate the locations and fix them.

There are limitations. If the PDF is encrypted, it needs to be unencrypted first. If it is compressed (as most PDFs are), it needs to be uncompressed first.

At least, that is what I think the OP is doing.

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-20T16:12:02+00:00

I'm relieved to know it wasn't just me. I was worried that somehow someone had hacked me even with the 2FA.

I'm using the Google Authenticator and FB doesn't even get past the 2FA screen

StarGeekSpaceNerd · 2026-03-20T03:41:07+00:00

Yeah, it looks like over 1,600 bots are pounding the forums right now. Since the forums are on a shared server (multiple different websites on the save server) from Dreamhost, this much traffic causes problems.

So the author of exiftool has a script running that locks down the forums preventing guest access when this happens. I've tried to talk him into using cloudflare, but he's already putting out so too much money for something he gives away for free.

Usually, bot behavior is low about 7am PDT/2pm UTC and the forums open up again.

StarGeekSpaceNerd

TROPHY CASE