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I am not going to explain on here why I want to withold the date on some of my pictures - but I have a pretty good reason for it because of the nature of some of the pictures I am going to be posting.

I was testing on some of the pictures I am posting now and if I leave it blank it autofills the correct day and if I try to enter 0000-00-00, it also autofills the correct date. What do you have to do to withold a date on here where you don't want to put a current one for the reasons I am doing so? It seems like my only solution left is to make a fake date but I would rather just leave it blank than lie.

That's a bit tough. This site extract EXIF data automatically. Even if you fill a fake date during uploading, EXIF info will still show up when viewing the photo.

One way to work around is to remove EXIF data before uploading, only if the number of photos we are talking here is relatively small. Another way would be add another field into each photo, so you can choose NOT to display EXIF data.

Ken

Ken.

I am concerned that there may be legal implications to this proposal. I am not suggesting that this may be the case with Daniel, but for some one to state that they took a photo on a certain date at a particular location when they were somewhere else at the time is surely not an action to be supported.

I also would not support leaving the date out for the same reason and also because members may wish to know when an image was taken for reference reasons.

Surely the removal/non display of EXIF data with digital images should not be necessary.

Congratulations to Daniel for his 40,000th image but do we need to adopt his suggestion for the sake of a couple more?

Malcolm.

i am totally against putting in a fake date because the aircraft owner/operator could potentially be in trouble for that. I don't see any harm done in witholding date information - its not being dishonest like putting a fake date, it is more a "don't ask, don't tell" situation.

My reasons for doing this are for CYA reasons - since I don't know how to change my name on here.

WEll apparently I am not at 40,000 anymore - I am back at 39,999.

Daniel, Malcolm,

On this site there're a lot of edited/scanned/old/not-supported photos that do not show any EXIF data. It's not mandatory or required for a photo to have EXIF data either. Many people do not provide a shot date when uploading, for what ever reason. So I think it would be fair to allow such action. For the sake of privacy, I would allow it too. It's not our purpose, nor appropriate for this site to track member's schedule. If Daniel does not want to tell me where he is on a particular day, I won't ask.

I agree putting a fake date is worse, and should not be encouraged.

Ken

You know all along I been posting the date and didn't realize 40,000 pictures later that I didn't have to enter it. The time it took me to post that date for 40,000 I probably could have 45,000 up by now :

Really there is no harm being done by not posting the date. Being that all of these aircraft involved are privately owned aircraft (I am not going to do that with commercial aircraft) they also have a right to their privacy as to what days their aicraft were on that ramp.

This may sound like a silly example but if I take a picture of someone's private Cessna at airport KXXX with tail number N###XX on such and such date - his wife might see the plane at airport KXXX, while he told her he was in another city, which makes her suspect he has a mistress near airport KXXX. I'm not going to get into the moral issue of that because it is none of my business what he is doing in that town but I don't need to throw him under the bus either by posting something that should be private info - ok I was being funny with that example but you get what I mean?

Airport FBOs frown on people taking pictures of planes on their ramps sometimes - if you can pretty much edit it so you don't see much proof to show it is their ramp and get rid of the date when that aircraft was there I don't think there would be an issue. Personally I wouldn't like anyone taking a picture of my car and showing it in a strip club parking lot on such and such date and posting it on their blog so my girlfriend could see it after I told her I was going to my parent's house - ok again I wouldn't do that but you get the point.