GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 344928
Support for vague dates
Last modified: 2010-06-08 23:37:39 UTC
A proposition - F-spot should support vague dates. This would have the advantage of not needing specifying unreadable ad-hoc "special" dates that other people can't interpret at all, and get confused with real dates. In vague dates, image exposure date could be specified either in exact form (nnnn-nn-nn) or in vague form. Same goes for time. Either component, both, or neither, can be in vague form. The vague form for date should support the following, for example: * "Unknown date" * "Sometime in year [year]" * "[month] of [year]" * "[Early/mid/late] [month] of [year]" * "[Spring/summer/autumn] of [year]" * "[Early/mid/late] [spring/summer/autumn] of [year]" * "Winter at the [beginning/end] of [year]" * "Sometime between [day].[month].[year] and [d].[month].[year]" Time could be expressed in similar way: * "Early hours" * "Early morning" * "Morning" * "Afternoon" * "Evening" * "Night" These could also be turned into ranges, like in "February or March of YYYY". An additional idea: Stacked vague dates - in order of increasing accuracy. Covering cases like "This was taken in Spring 2003, that's dead certain; most likely, in April."
This would be wonderful for scanned pictures.
I second that! Same would be nice for (not-yet-implemented) geo-tags, from "Exactly here" via "Somwehre around here" to "On this continent"...
It would be nice if it was possible to sort the photos within these categories. You might have some photos taken in "december 2002" that you know were taken before some other photos the same month.
Note that "seasons" mean different things on different places of the earth. For instance, "Summer" happens around the months of June, July, August in the northen hemisphere, and around December, Januari, February in the Southern hemisphere. And closer to the Equator, there is no summer/autum/winter/spring at all. They have dry periods and wet periods, Monsoons etc. Im not saying that this proposal is bad, just that these things needs to be kept in mind when proposing a solution. People in Chile and Australia (and lots of other places) should also be able to use this. Dropping the "season of year" support from this proposal would still make it a useful feature.
Am going to close this as won't fix. For the simple reason that this is not expressable in any common metadata format.