Photo upload gets wrong date - 1970 - sometimes?

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Shaun reports via personal email:

"I have just uploaded a photo through the mobile Web interface and it's given the photo a date of 1/0/1970. See attached screenshot."

This is the photo in question:
http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/44119/

I think the reason is that that photo doesn't seem to have any date info in it. (Download the original from that page and inspect.)

I have therefore tested it with CycleStreets' htc Wildfire Android, Feste to upload this:

http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/44120/

... which works fine.

[si-the-pie]

Noticed that the upload screenshot Shaun sent also says:

"Uploaded by smsm1 on 1/0/1970"

strictly though that date is the date the photo was taken, not uploaded.

[si-the-pie]

Note: I've since deleted the above mentioned test photo 44120 as it was a duplicate of http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/44073/

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Shaun adds:

"It is all forms on Chrome mobile. I'm thinking about moving to another browser until it's fixed. Didn't used to be a problem."

and about storing the date in exif...

"It does store that info. It got the location from the EXIF info. I've attached the photo, as uploaded via dropbox. I've just increased the resolution, as it seems to have been on the low res for some unknown reason. Dropbox manages to use the exif info to rename it correctly.

It is now giving the date uploaded.

Maybe fallback to the date uploaded if the date taken doesn't work as expected.

I can mail the photo direct from the phone, just in case the dropbox upload does more than just rename the file."