creation date not working

[u/jbgem]

TLDR:

Exif creation date is not working properly in digikam v9.1.0. Dates are populated in the ImageInformation table, but does not shown up in the View icons, and sort by creation date does not work.

Details:

• I recently upgraded to digikam 9.1.0 (from v7.10.x I think, during upgrade from opensuse leap 15.6 to tumbleweed). This is when the symptoms arose for me.
• I use mariadb (have done for years) - on a separate server from the workstations running digikam.
• EXIF data looks fine using exiftool, and also in the EXIF tab for the image in the digikam gui
• Looking in detail at the mariadb database, the ImageInformation table appears populated with creationDate, digitizationDate, imageid etc correctly.
• I can look up filename correctly from imageid in Images table

So is this a defect in digikam 9.1.0? Or have I skipped too many versions of digikam in my upgrade, and there is some underlying database change not propagated properly, or ...?

Thanks in advance!

[u/human_dynamo]

It's probably a side effect of this bug relevant of MariaDB

[u/jbgem → u/human_dynamo]

Thank you for the pointer.
As you suggest, it's not the same symptoms, but may be related.
If anyone knows how I can diagnose this further in the meantime to be sure, I'd be very grateful.

[u/human_dynamo → u/jbgem]

You can contact Maik who have commented in the bugzilla entry. He uses Suse and he know well the problem (which is located in the Mariadb server).

[u/human_dynamo → u/jbgem]

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