Manually update dates of albums

[HerrHellmus]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have quite a few albums where the created/changed date is incorrect, due to the files having been moved around several times between drives/SD cards/clouds. Because of this, the album dates mentioned in the app are incorrect, which is very annoying and messing up the order of the albums. I have about 10 years of albums, so it's very tricky to find something at the moment.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to be able to manually change the dates related to an album, independent of the creation dates of the pictures themselves.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've tried updating the dates of the files with using touch and the file name (IMGyyyymmddhhmmss, etc) in the lespas folder on the server, removing the json files, so they have to be recreated. Sadly, this still messes up some of the dates for some reason.

Additional context
I have been using Lespas for quite some time now, and I really like it, so keep up the good work!

[scubajeff]

I still prefer the auto detection of album start/end date from it's photos. I understand the frustration you are facing, I believe many others suffer this too. I had do some research before on a way to detect photo taken date from it's name, afterall, many camera manufacturers encode their output using some timestamp scheme, but sadly, there seems no way that is widely agreed upon which I can follow.

Thanks for this issue, I make up my mind to do it in a Les Pas way. I will make a patch in the next release to honor the naming scheme of yyyymmddhhmmss as the photo creation date if the 'taken date' info can't be retrieved from photo's EXIF

[HerrHellmus]

Thanks, that patch would help.
Don't get me wrong, I think the automatic timestamp detection is great, but it would be nice to have some override when needed.

By the way, I noticed my pictures have a syntax like yyyymmdd_hhmmss, with sometimes a prefix (like IMG_) and/or suffix (_HDR) added. I think that's the standard for most smartphone cameras.