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use_timestamps_as_captions

Name

use_timestamps_as_captions -- determines whether timestamps may be used as captions

Synopsis

     use_timestamps_as_captions=1

Description

makethumbs has an involved algorithm for determining what to use as a caption under images on the index page. If you've added a caption to your descriptions.txt file, that will be used. Lacking that, if the filename of the image looks interesting, that will be used. Lacking that, if a timestamp is available for the image, that will be used.

Sometimes you won't want the timestamps used as a caption. If you've travelled far out of your timezone and the camera was not adjusted to account for that, or the camera's clock is vastly incorrect, then the times of the photos are not useful. When Andrew Morton put his Thailand photos on-line with makethumbs, he had tmes in the middle of the night, with pictures of mid afternoon light—a perfect time to instruct makethumbs to ignore the timestamps.

use_timestamps_as_captions is a boolean variable; set it to 0 to disable this feature.

Dates in captions

makethumbs will use the time of a photo as the caption if all the images in the directory were shot on the same day. makethumbs will use the date of the photo if the images in the directory were taken on seperate days. None of this will be done unless the image filename is determined to be “uninteresting”. An uninteresting filename is a filename that looks like something a digital camera generated, with no inherent meaning to people.

See also

print_captions , compact_index_page

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