Bridge 14.1.1.274 does not safe "created date" for IPTC artwork field

[chrillek]

IPTC provides a collection of fields to tag images of artworks. While "Title" and "Creator" are working ok, Bridge does not save the "Creation date". I assume it's expecting a fully qualified date here, although IPTC clearly states that this is a string field.

That's a bug, in my opinion.

[gregreser]

What value are your trying to enter?

Yes, Artwork Date Created is expecting a qualified date format which is what the IPTC specification calls for:

"Data type: DateTime (preferred: truncated DateTime)"   XMP Date/Time format

Recognizing that this format is not always appropriate for artworks, especially pre-20th centruy or approximate dates, IPTC added Artwork Circa Date Created, which is a simple string format, to the specificatin in 2014. Unfortunatley, Bridge does not currently support Circa Date Created.

[chrillek]

I see. That's unfortunate. Even more unfortunate is that Bridge silently removes the date without any error message or warning.

[chrillek]

I tried "2024", "2024-01-01" and "2024-01-01 08:00". According to the spec, any of these should work.

IPTC spec 2023 

IPTC example

[gregreser]

That's Adobe's fault. They seem to only accept dd/mm/yyyy [time optional].

If you enter "2024-01-01" in the IPTC Core Date Created, you get this alert:

I think they are trying to be helpful by using a date format many people are familiar with, but they are just making things more difficult and confusing.  Bridge wants you enter "1/1/2024", which is quietly converted and saved as "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z". 

Adding to the mess, the date field format is not consistent across the metadata panel and File Info panels.

IPTC Core Date Created:

Date fields should accept dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd.

Interestingly, File Info seems to only accept yyyy-mm-dd, the opposite of the metadata panel. 

The more I look at this, the worse it gets. Adobe needs to clean this up.

[chrillek]

Thanks for looking into this. I agree that Adobe needs to clean it up, but I won't hold my breath.