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I have been looking to use Breeze Systems Downloader Pro to do some file renaming and copying and found an interesting quirk that I am trying to better understand. When Downloader Pro copies and renames a file that was taken during the months when we observe DST, the times in the EXIF data read correctly when the file is viewed in Jeffrey Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer or with EXIFTool GUI. But, when the date/time is displayed in Windows Explorer File Properties box, or in FastStone Image Viewer, it is exactly one hour ahead, despite the EXIF data showing the correct time.
I know that there are Windows issues that relate to DST and UTC as well as time issues that are handled differently in FAT32 and NTFS. But I cannot figure out what could be triggering the misread by some software and not others. I have reached out to the author of Downloader Pro, but have not yet received a response. Does anybody know if Windows pulls its date information from a different source other than the EXIF data? And does anybody know why a renaming and copying of the file would trigger this date adjustment, when the original file reads correctly? Just trying to better understand this issue if possible.
Thanks,
--Ken
I know that there are Windows issues that relate to DST and UTC as well as time issues that are handled differently in FAT32 and NTFS. But I cannot figure out what could be triggering the misread by some software and not others. I have reached out to the author of Downloader Pro, but have not yet received a response. Does anybody know if Windows pulls its date information from a different source other than the EXIF data? And does anybody know why a renaming and copying of the file would trigger this date adjustment, when the original file reads correctly? Just trying to better understand this issue if possible.
Thanks,
--Ken