This has nothing to do with Kubuntu, or Linux for that matter, but I'm baffled by something and thought the brilliant folks here could offer some ideas. 
After posting some pictures I took of the space shuttle Columbia's contrails in another thread, I decided to clean up the directory all of my images from that day were in. I had duplicates and even triplicates. Some were because of downloading the same pictures on more than one day (having forgotten to delete them from my camera's card the first time), while others were the same pictures but that I had renamed (from their original names on the camera to descriptive names), but for some unknown reason I didn't ACTUALLY rename them, because I still had originals plus the ones with new names. (Confused? That's okay, so am I. Nine years down the road I have no idea why I did what I did.)
Okay, so here's what I found. The images with the original names were time-stamped 02/01/03 @ around 3:13am. The exact same photos but with descriptive names were time-stamped 02/01/03 @ around 1:44am. I *KNOW* unequivocally that I did not take the pics at either of those times! The Columbia exploded over Dallas right at 8:00am (Dallas time), so my pics were taken a few minutes after I heard the sonic booms.
I don't recall right now which Linux distro I was using at the time, but it doesn't really matter. Obviously, my camera's time was off, although I don't know why as I'm SUPER meticulous about stuff like that.
Fine, so that accounts for the incorrect time on the originally-named photos...but how did the renamed pics get a totally different time, 1-1/2 hours earlier? There's no way the computer they were on had its time set incorrectly.
After posting some pictures I took of the space shuttle Columbia's contrails in another thread, I decided to clean up the directory all of my images from that day were in. I had duplicates and even triplicates. Some were because of downloading the same pictures on more than one day (having forgotten to delete them from my camera's card the first time), while others were the same pictures but that I had renamed (from their original names on the camera to descriptive names), but for some unknown reason I didn't ACTUALLY rename them, because I still had originals plus the ones with new names. (Confused? That's okay, so am I. Nine years down the road I have no idea why I did what I did.)
Okay, so here's what I found. The images with the original names were time-stamped 02/01/03 @ around 3:13am. The exact same photos but with descriptive names were time-stamped 02/01/03 @ around 1:44am. I *KNOW* unequivocally that I did not take the pics at either of those times! The Columbia exploded over Dallas right at 8:00am (Dallas time), so my pics were taken a few minutes after I heard the sonic booms.
I don't recall right now which Linux distro I was using at the time, but it doesn't really matter. Obviously, my camera's time was off, although I don't know why as I'm SUPER meticulous about stuff like that.
Fine, so that accounts for the incorrect time on the originally-named photos...but how did the renamed pics get a totally different time, 1-1/2 hours earlier? There's no way the computer they were on had its time set incorrectly.
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