From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T00:48:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Time stamp on jpg

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007, Citizen Snips wrote:
> nick wrote:
> > I am trying to find the time that a jpg was created. I am using the
> > File.atime(file) code. My problem is it will tell me the date that it
> > was created but the time is 00:00:00, I was wanting to know if anyone
> > else has ever came across this problem. I am using ruby 1.86
> 
> try mtime
> atime is the time last accessed, not created

Depending on where the JPEG came from, you might try extracting the EXIF
data too.  If the image is coming from a camera, it's very likely to
have a timestamp for when it was captured.

Search Rubyforge for 'exif', there are a number of projects.

Ben