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7 mins ago comment added nohillside @ReinstateMonica3167040 I was able to create a 1964 timestamp on an APFS drive
5 hours ago comment added ReinstateMonica3167040 @slingeraap However, while Unix time can be negative, APFS time which also starts at January 1, 1970 cannot.
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12 hours ago comment added nohillside @slingeraap Indeed, learned something new today.
13 hours ago comment added slingeraap For the record, Unix timestamps do go before 1970. The unix timestamp is defined as number of seconds since Jan 1st, 1970, but this number also has a negative range, which extends to as low as the year 1901.
yesterday comment added PLL As far as I understand from the docs I’ve found (including the tag listing of ExifTool and the EXIF standard), ExifTool’s “CreateDate” is meant to be a synonym for the standard’s “DateTimeDigitized”, so in cases like OP’s, not the same as “DateTimeOriginal”, which is the one that’s supposed to represent the time the original photo was taken.
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