alt Hacker NewsSomebody needs to manage human time/date approximates in a way other people in s/w will align to.
"photo scanned in 2025, is about something in easter, before 1940 and after 1920"
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SchemaLoad • today at 6:38 AM
The issue that gets me is that Google Photos and Apple photos will let you manually pick a date, but they won't actually set it in the photo EXIF, so when you move platforms. All of the images that came from scans/sent without EXIF lose their dates.
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In EXIF, you have DateTimeDigitized [0]
For ambiguous dates there is the EDTF Spec[1] which would be nice to see more widely adopted.
[0] https://www.media.mit.edu/pia/Research/deepview/exif.html
[1] https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/