Bug 455176

I've talked to upstream regarding this, and was assured that it is been worked 
on, but it's not a trivial fix, so I think we just need to hold out on it.

Could reporter or maintainer update to F10, where the problem still exists, please?

(In reply to comment #1)
> I've talked to upstream regarding this, and was assured that it is been worked 
> on, but it's not a trivial fix, so I think we just need to hold out on it.  

Having just come across this problem the hard way, in "holding out" I think we need to separate a possible future "correct" solution to the timezone problem from the current definitely-not-correct-in-many-use-cases behaviour.

I'd imagine the current implementation was a well-meant first effort to solve the timezone problem, but imho it's worse than leaving the EXIF timestamp as is - it's a data corruption bug in another guise. I certainly feel as though my data has been corrupted, and I'm not sure I can recover all the information.

I've added some comments to the upstream BZ, but that bug hasn't even been confirmed or assigned - it would be useful if you could help that happen?

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As requested in comment #2, please change this to F10 (the bug is still present) and re-open. Thank you.

There is also a potential work around patch from the upstream bug:
http://gitorious.org/~paulwb/f-spot/paulwbs-clone/commits/ImportTimeHandling