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Hi! Not sure what processes your images have gone through, but the EXIF data is not consistent. To get the time a photo was taken, X3 looks for EXIF value DateTimeOriginal. You can find this value under "Exif" for an image from our demo:
http://metapicz.com/#landing?imgsrc=htt ... ailand.jpg

For your test images, there is no such value. I can see an EXIF value ModifyDate [2021:05:03 14:47:08] which your Irfanview is clearly using.
http://metapicz.com/#landing?imgsrc=htt ... 785524.jpg

I don't see any reason X3 should use the EXIF "ModifyDate", or at least there is no indication that this value represents when the photo was taken. You have other images on your website stored with the EXIF DateTimeOriginal value:
http://metapicz.com/#landing?imgsrc=htt ... 610396.jpg

Gonepteryx wrote:These new pictures with wrong date had been exported by Excire Foto (Photo Manager), a quite new software. I will have to ask them why exporting produces inconsistent EXIF-Data.

The most important question would perhaps be why DateTimeOriginal is removed? They can add their own data (like ModifyDate) as DateTimeOriginal should not be changed, but why remove it? It's the definite option to check when a photo was "taken".

Gonepteryx wrote:PS: I would very much appreciate if X3 could read/show the location data from IPTC. As for landscape photography this is a quite important information. May I have some hope for this in a future version ?

What IPTC location data are you referring to? X3 already gets location data from image EXIF, which allows it to render map links. Example:
https://demo.photo.gallery/examples/fea ... fjord.jpeg

Capability to show Google maps location data is only available in X3 "pro".

Gonepteryx wrote:Concerning IPTC location data: I would need City, Province-State and Country. The map only works with GPS-Data but my camera has no GPS. Actually even if it had I would prefer these data as text and not as map. May be I'm a bit old-fashioned...

Right, I mistook the request for GPS when you asked for "location data". Additional IPTC properties could be assigned in X3, but then we need a way to configure what IPTC properties to display (there are literally hundreds). Also, unlike title and description (formatted and ordered), we won't be able to plan/design any formatting for additional properties, because we don't know type/value/length ... They would just need to be stacked vertically, with possibility for custom CSS styling.

Gonepteryx wrote:I thought there were only 30 ? I would very much appreciate land, city and province, nothing else ;-). But I don't know about the other users...

Hundreds! :tired_face:
https://www.exiv2.org/tags.html

Gonepteryx wrote:I understand the formatting problem; for me the solution with CSS styling would be perfect.

I will need to look into it at some point. It would definitely be useful with a few more of the popular tags available. I can't just load "everything" though, and then just display a few. It would have to be some advanced config ...

Gonepteryx wrote:Yes, EXIF hundreds, but IPTC only 23!
https://iptc.org/standards/photo-metada ... -standard/

City, Land, Province are IPTC Core Standard :wink:

Alright, that might make it a bit easier ...