Date Created v Date Taken?

Hi Terry,

I would have said that the taken time is when you actually took the
picture, whereas the created time is the time the file was created on
your computer file system (i.e. when you downloaded it from your
camera).

I'm not sure regarding the 1 hour time difference... windows can be
funny sometimes.

Regards,
Jules
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net!

Be aware that the NTFS and CDFS store the time in UTC and present it as
clock time, but FAT simple storeds Clock time, and has no concept of time
zone....

David

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:10:44 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:

I've changed my mind - that cannot explain it! When I took the photo
the camera presumably recorded the Date Picture Taken as 04/05/2003
11:33 (4th May). At some later date I moved it to my HD and WinXP
recorded Date Created as 04/05/2003 10:33. But why that hour's
difference? Obviously Windows cannot know whether or not my camera had
been set to the correct time when the photo was taken! Why didn't
Windows simply enter Date Created = Date Picture Taken = 11:33

If you used a card reader to transfer the pictures, there's no
reason I can think of why there would be that one hour difference.
But if you used any of Sony's software to transfer the pictures from
the DSC-1, it might have detected the one hour discrepancy between
the camera's and the computer's time, and compensated by adjusting
the creation date by one hour.