RC6: Thumbnails&Details: Diverse date/time formats

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:40 pm

In the new Thumbnails & Details view, some dates are shown (actually not quite clear what these dates are).

Currently, for displaying the date at the very bottom, the long date format of the Windows systems is used. Whereas for the date/time in the fourth line, a different format is used. This is a bit irritating, also using the long date/time format needs a lot of space and the entry will be truncated.

I suggest to
- use same date/time format for entries
- use short date/time format of the Windows System (not the long one).

Related topic: Column 'Name' too narrow

XnView 1.80 <x>

ckit · Post by **ckit** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 12:59 pm

The date/time in the fourth line, is the short format (using the long format would eat up too much room)
The date/time in Windows system tray uses long format but that can be changed in the Control Panel -> Regional Options.

I'm not sure what you want from Pierre on this one?

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:13 pm

ckit wrote:The date/time in Windows system tray uses long format but that can be changed in the Control Panel -> Regional Options.

I mean the last (5th row) in the column 'Properties', not the system tray. The 5th row uses the long date format, whereas the 4th uses a different (short?) date format.

ckit · Post by **ckit** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:17 pm

On my setup:

Row 1: file type
Row 2: dimensions
Row 3: dpi
Row 4: pages: no.
Row 5: short date

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:21 pm

ckit wrote:On my setup:

Row 1: file type
Row 2: dimensions
Row 3: dpi
Row 4: pages: no.
Row 5: short date

I should learn how to count... .. it's the 5th and 6th row which show dates. From what I can see the 6th row is the "EXIF modified" timestamp, so you will see this only on JPG files with EXIF data.

ckit · Post by **ckit** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:29 pm

I'm using EXIF and IPTC JPG's and still only see 5 rows displayed.

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:38 pm

ckit wrote:I'm using EXIF and IPTC JPG's and still only see 5 rows displayed.

As written above, I'm not quite clear where the date value of 6th row origins. You can download and try the Sample image to reproduce the problem (guess you have to right-click and then choose 'Save link..' to download the image unchanged).

ckit · Post by **ckit** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:53 pm

I get the same display with that sample image.

Post by **xnview** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:41 am

helmut wrote:
ckit wrote:On my setup:

Row 1: file type
Row 2: dimensions
Row 3: dpi
Row 4: pages: no.
Row 5: short date
I should learn how to count... .. it's the 5th and 6th row which show dates. From what I can see the 6th row is the "EXIF modified" timestamp, so you will see this only on JPG files with EXIF data.

Yes, EXIF date are only in text, so i display this text.

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:42 pm

xnview wrote:...
Yes, EXIF date are only in text, so i display this text.

I've changed the long date format and the format of the date/time in 6th row has changed. So I think XnView uses the date/time, not string for this value.

Post by **xnview** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:12 pm

helmut wrote:
xnview wrote:...
Yes, EXIF date are only in text, so i display this text.
I've changed the long date format and the format of the date/time in 6th row has changed. So I think XnView uses the date/time, not string for this value.

You have changed date/time format of windows???
The short date/time format is better?