From 7562088facdb73ac21e53616a37dfbc4d2cbe407 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Nygren <dev@erik.work>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:44:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat(server): parse EXIF creation time for some insta360
 images (#17564)

It seems insta360 stores metadata in XMP GPano tags, with their own
non-standard and undocumented addition `SourceImageCreateTime`. For some
pictures this is the only EXIF tag containing a creation time.
---
 server/src/services/metadata.service.ts | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/server/src/services/metadata.service.ts b/server/src/services/metadata.service.ts
index 3bf0c6d5c78..a49bcac80e7 100644
--- a/server/src/services/metadata.service.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/metadata.service.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ const EXIF_DATE_TAGS: Array<keyof Tags> = [
   'SubSecMediaCreateDate',
   'MediaCreateDate',
   'DateTimeCreated',
+  // Undocumented, non-standard tag from insta360 in xmp.GPano namespace
+  'SourceImageCreateTime' as keyof Tags,
 ];
 
 const validate = <T>(value: T): NonNullable<T> | null => {