From: 12 34 Date: 2007-06-20T03:47:42+09:00 Subject: MiniExifTool date formats I'm getting Sat Jun 09 23:10:57 -0700 2007 as output from photo.DateTimeOriginal I'd like to avoid parsing it myself and should think I'd be able to get an easier to deal with format. I'm going to change it to 2006.10.14 after shifting the time from the camera's UTC to the local date. So a YYYYMMDD format would be easy to deal with. I suspect that the format I'm seeing has to do with using it on my OS X system. (I'm guessing that the -0700 is the GMT offset, but this is my computer offset. My camera doesn't know what time zone it is set to. That's a clue to me that my OS is affecting the output.) Thanks for any help. And thanks again Jan for putting MiniExifTool together. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.