Closed Bug 850760 Opened 11 years ago Closed 6 years ago

[Flame][Camera] EXIF header Digitized Date Time field can't be set, stuck at "2002:12:08 12:00:00"

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Vendcom, defect)

ARM
Gonk (Firefox OS)
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(blocking-b2g:-)

RESOLVED WONTFIX
blocking-b2g -

People

(Reporter: mikeh, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [POVB])

[This behaviour is observed on Unagi; it may apply to other handsets as well.]

Bug 819835 added the capability to set the EXIF Original Date Time header field by calling SetParameter("exif-datetime"); but there doesn't appear to be any parameter key that can be used to set the Digitized Date Time.

As a result, this field is always populated with "2002:12:08 12:00:00".
blocking-b2g: --- → tef?
Keywords: unagi
Is this not a dup of bug 850629 at this point?
Not exactly.  Bug 850629 is because camera.js is just not setting 'dateTime' in the takePicture() config parameter object.  That's a fairly easy fix, which will cause the Original Date Time field to be populated.  We can fix that.

This bug is because libcamera is writing a value into the EXIF header that we can't seem to modify.  Either the vendor has to fix this, or tell us what magic frob we can twiddle to override the default value.

I've poked into libcamera with strings and don't see anything obvious.
Got it, thanks.  tef- for now, until another partner raises this as blocking.
blocking-b2g: tef? → -
This bug happen for me also on Geeksphone Peak.
This behavior is shown in JB (v123) and KK (v165) Flame as well.

Captured image displays exif data as follows:
Date Time Original
2014:08:22 14:33:04
Create Date
2002:12:08 12:00:00
Keywords: unagi
Summary: Camera - EXIF header Digitized Date Time field can't be set, stuck at "2002:12:08 12:00:00" → [Flame][Camera] EXIF header Digitized Date Time field can't be set, stuck at "2002:12:08 12:00:00"
Component: General → Vendcom
Whiteboard: [POVB]
Confirming the bug on Geeksphone Peak.
And it is not a problem on Aries.
Workaround on flame/geeksphone would be to rewrite the exif tag. We'll have Exif write support soon.
Firefox OS is not being worked on
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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