Timestamp Issue with Photos (in App and Photos app)
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- Swift
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Description
Expected behaviour
Photos app imports pictures as “timestamp of date taken”.
Nextcloud app shows pictures as “timestamp of date taken”.
Actual behaviour
Photos app imports picture as “today”.
Nextcloud app shows pictures as “today”.
Steps to reproduce
Girlfriend uploads photos via drag‘n‘drop into the browser interface.
You download them via the iOS app on your iPad (and may also import them to Photos).
Then you wonder why you were on that mountain today instead of last year.
iOS version & App version & Server configuration
Everything up-to-date, nothing special, Snap on Ubuntu
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the upload through the browser interface, then download the photo through the iOS app and compare the date shown in Photos and Nextcloud with the date taken. Start by tracing the iOS photo download and metadata handling; done means imported photos retain their original timestamp instead of showing today.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- ios, swift
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100