From 333ca8827e45a6f06e69d3d21309c6b4a9c01145 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Molina <gitju@pablomolina.me>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:17:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: use dateTimeOriginal to calculate album date (#14119)

---
 server/src/dtos/album.dto.ts  | 5 +++--
 server/src/utils/date-time.ts | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 server/src/utils/date-time.ts

diff --git a/server/src/dtos/album.dto.ts b/server/src/dtos/album.dto.ts
index b12847ee62537..76f4fdfc98f4a 100644
--- a/server/src/dtos/album.dto.ts
+++ b/server/src/dtos/album.dto.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { AuthDto } from 'src/dtos/auth.dto';
 import { UserResponseDto, mapUser } from 'src/dtos/user.dto';
 import { AlbumEntity } from 'src/entities/album.entity';
 import { AlbumUserRole, AssetOrder } from 'src/enum';
+import { getAssetDateTime } from 'src/utils/date-time';
 import { Optional, ValidateBoolean, ValidateUUID } from 'src/validation';
 
 export class AlbumInfoDto {
@@ -164,8 +165,8 @@ export const mapAlbum = (entity: AlbumEntity, withAssets: boolean, auth?: AuthDt
   const hasSharedLink = entity.sharedLinks?.length > 0;
   const hasSharedUser = sharedUsers.length > 0;
 
-  let startDate = assets.at(0)?.fileCreatedAt || undefined;
-  let endDate = assets.at(-1)?.fileCreatedAt || undefined;
+  let startDate = getAssetDateTime(assets.at(0));
+  let endDate = getAssetDateTime(assets.at(-1));
   // Swap dates if start date is greater than end date.
   if (startDate && endDate && startDate > endDate) {
     [startDate, endDate] = [endDate, startDate];
diff --git a/server/src/utils/date-time.ts b/server/src/utils/date-time.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e1578cbb19ad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/utils/date-time.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import { AssetEntity } from 'src/entities/asset.entity';
+
+export const getAssetDateTime = (asset: AssetEntity | undefined) => {
+  return asset?.exifInfo?.dateTimeOriginal || asset?.fileCreatedAt;
+};