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Display the exact exposure date of an image

I have an image IMG_01.PNG

I can display the image exposure date by doing: exiftool -CreateDate IMG_01.JPG This prints:

Create Date                     : 2017:04:15 10:06:40

But I want to display this date in microsecond accuracy, for example if I do: stat -c %w IMG_01.JPG I get:

2020-07-17 00:44:30.483242603 +0100

But this is not the date that I want. How can I display a more accurate date using exiftool?

Solution

  • Exiftool can only display info actually embedded in the file or properties of the file that are supported by the Perl libraries it uses. In the case of the embedded CreateDate, that tag only allows for accuracy down to the seconds and all tags completely rely on whatever the source of the image actually embedded. In case of the file system time stamp returned by stat, see this post on the exiftool forums.