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Hi Aaron,
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<div class="">Using Bio-Formats 5.1.1 and <a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.1/api/ome/xml/meta/MetadataRetrieve.html#getImageAcquisitionDate(int)" class="">getImageAcquisitionDate</a>, I can retrieve the Timestamp</div>
<div class="">for some sample images. Is your issue happening for a particular file format? If so would</div>
<div class="">it be possible to upload a sample file at <a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/qa2/qa/upload/?" class="">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/qa2/qa/upload/?</a></div>
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<div class="">Best,</div>
<div class="">Sebastien</div>
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<div class="">On 29 Apr 2015, at 08:55, Ponti Aaron <<a href="mailto:aaron.ponti@bsse.ethz.ch" class="">aaron.ponti@bsse.ethz.ch</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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the method <span style="font-family:"Courier New"" class="">ome.xml.meta.OMEXMLMetadataImpl.</span><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"Courier New";background:white" class=""><a href="https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/5.0/job/BIOFORMATS-5.0-latest/javadoc/ome/xml/meta/OMEXMLMetadataImpl.html#getImageAcquisitionDate(int)" class=""><span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" class="">getImageAcquisitionDate</span></a></span></strong><code class=""><span style="background:white" class="">(int imageIndex)</span></code><span style="background:white" class=""> seems
 to be always returning null in bioformats 5.1.1. The same call on the same files with 5.0.8 returns a valid timestamp.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">----<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Aaron Ponti<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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