500d embarrassing question

Had the 500d for quite a while but have decided I would like the date of the image included on the picture. However, after a lot of searching I don't seem to be able to find anything in the manual to say how to include it. Could someone please tell me how to do it, that is of course if it is possible. Thanks for any advise.

Thanks RedFox88.  I think I must have included the date during post processing a couple of years back for some competition purposes. But I could not remember doing it. Worrying isn't it. Regards.

Hi Digirame. Thanks for that info, I am going to check out what I already have " or did have" and if I have no success I could well give that a go. The main thing I now know is it is not an "in camera" option. Regards

with lots of gear but no idea wrote:

Had the 500d for quite a while but have decided I would like the date of the image included on the picture. However, after a lot of searching I don't seem to be able to find anything in the manual to say how to include it. Could someone please tell me how to do it, that is of course if it is possible. Thanks for any advise.

Well its not on the image but don't forget that the date is tagged in the EXIF metadata so as long as you have the image file you can always find out the date.

You could also rename all your image files appending the EXIF date using freeware tools.

I haven't found any tools which would automatically write the EXIF date to the image as a batch process but it seems like something that might be useful.

Not sure if you're trying to keep track of the date that photos were taken or wanting to include it when printing or posting to social media.