Change Date of Photos?

[tpieples]

My RX100V had the incorrect DATE during my vacation. Is there any way to change the date encoded on each of the 7000+ photos taken over 7 days...without manually doing it via Windows Explorer for each photo? The photos are still on my SD Card. Can I change the dates through the camera somehow in mass? Please help ease the pain of my stupidity! Thank you!!

 

[Spartaner]

You could use the program "JpgTime ", a Time Stamp Modifier for JPEG Files.

Easy to use to change the file date, but also to change the EXIF-data of the JPG.

 

[RM3]

FastStone Image Viewer 6.6 does it too: http://www.faststone.org/

 

[Enders Shadow]

Are your timestamps off by a fixed amount such as +11 hours. Or is the month or year simple wrong? You'll need to change the timestamps on a computer.

Many editors allow setting a new timestamp or can shift them by a fixed period. And, there are utilities that can handle large batches. ExifTool is a good utility if you can live with a command line interface.

Say the timestamps are behind by 2 years, 11 months, 5 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes. The format would be:

exiftool “-DateTimeOriginal+=2:11:5 11:30:0” -overwrite_originals <folder name>

This will add that correction to the existing timestamps.

If you want to change the tags DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and ModifyDate then change DateTimeOriginal to AllDates

exiftool “-AllDates+=2:11:5 11:30:0” -overwrite_originals <folder name>

Lots of other options can be used. There are plenty of ExifTool examples available.

Copy your files to your computer first. Each file has to be opened for write then rewritten. Hopefully you have a SSD in your system. You don't want to run this on the files on your SD card. You should preserve the originals by doing your testing in a temp folder. You can leave out the "overwrite_originals" switch, but your original files will have "_original" appended. Run a quick test on a small batch before doing the entire set.

There are other utilities that will do the same thing.

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Phil

 

[NicholasD]

My RX100V had the incorrect DATE during my vacation. Is there any way to change the date encoded on each of the 7000+ photos taken over 7 days...without manually doing it via Windows Explorer for each photo? The photos are still on my SD Card. Can I change the dates through the camera somehow in mass? Please help ease the pain of my stupidity! Thank you!!

Reviving this thread as I have a similar issue. I recently purchased an RX100 VA (yeah) for a London trip (big yeah). Trip w/ teenage son was awesome etc etc. Images fine except when setting up camera, apparently I hit 2022 vs 2023 so exif date is wrong. Not end of world, but I do organize LR by date.... Suggestions? One of the original replies to this thread suggested FastStone but that appears to be a Windows only option (I'm on a Mac).

Thanks,
Nick

 

[Snapsh0t]

Googling for 'bulk exif editor' brings up many possible applications. I've not tried any of them so can't make any recommendations.

 

[Guy Parsons]

My RX100V had the incorrect DATE during my vacation. Is there any way to change the date encoded on each of the 7000+ photos taken over 7 days...without manually doing it via Windows Explorer for each photo? The photos are still on my SD Card. Can I change the dates through the camera somehow in mass? Please help ease the pain of my stupidity! Thank you!!

Reviving this thread as I have a similar issue. I recently purchased an RX100 VA (yeah) for a London trip (big yeah). Trip w/ teenage son was awesome etc etc. Images fine except when setting up camera, apparently I hit 2022 vs 2023 so exif date is wrong. Not end of world, but I do organize LR by date.... Suggestions? One of the original replies to this thread suggested FastStone but that appears to be a Windows only option (I'm on a Mac).

Thanks,
Nick

Two suggestions:

1. Borrow a Windows PC and use JPGTime (best) or FastStone (not so versatile) to fix the date.
2. Go to the Mac Talk forum https://www.dpreview.com/forums/1017 and ask the same question.

I'm 100% ignorant about Mac but is there some Windows simulation that could enable running of JPGTime? I use it to fix all silly time zone and date problems. http://www.muralpix.com/jpgtime/

To synchronise a bunch of cameras I take the first shot of the day on each camera of a screen or phone showing https://time.is/ so now I have a shot to compare the real time with the camera clock time, then use JPGTime to offset the whole card (or better a folder that is a copy of the card) of images (jpegs and raw) and videos by the same time correction amount. Despite its name it can alter the time on all types of files.

 

[ParietalPenguin]

Nicholas, you have Lightroom? It is very easy to do in LR using the metadata section. I'm away from my main computer but could walk you through it or I imagine you could google/youtube it and get a better explanation.

 

[NicholasD]

Nicholas, you have Lightroom? It is very easy to do in LR using the metadata section. I'm away from my main computer but could walk you through it or I imagine you could google/youtube it and get a better explanation.

 

[ParietalPenguin]

I frequently have to do this after traveling to a different time zone! I remember to change it there and forget to fix it when I get home.

 

[Isola Verde]

Nicholas, you have Lightroom? It is very easy to do in LR using the metadata section. I'm away from my main computer but could walk you through it or I imagine you could google/youtube it and get a better explanation.

Perfect - I’ll poke around tomorrow and if I can’t figure it out, I’ll reply to this thread.

thank you
Nick

Our vacation spanned the weekend of the most recent time-change - March 25th/26th for those here in the UK and across much of Europe....

We left home the preceding Wednesday - equipped with smart watches and phones, a wifi-only tablet and my various cameras, all set to UK time, at that stage GMT.

Flew to Spain, where our phones automatically pick up Spanish time (GMT+1) before we're off the plane. Our watches sync to those. Didn't bother to advance the cameras, so pictures are an hour "behind" local time - and don't know how to change the tablet, which ignores any time info in overseas wifi.

Come Sunday morning (and that winter-to-summer time change) and before we wake the phones have automatically advanced another 1 hour (to GMT+2); we re-synced our watches. Tablet and cameras are now all 2 hours "behind".

Fly back to Britain: phones automatically move to BST (GMT+1) and we nudge our watches into doing the same. On reconnecting to the airport wifi, tablet sets itself to local time... so now only the cameras are wrong, but by only an hour.

Arrive home and the next day make the usual round of corrections - advancing cameras, older watches, household clocks and the one in our elderly car... and, as I've done twice a year for decades, marvel at how the simple timer on our domestic heating system knows just how and when to change!

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Further thoughts, in no particular order....

1 Next year, do as we did in 2022 - and time our break to avoid all this extra hassle!

2 Get a new phone with better photo capabilities and leave cameras and tablet at home.

3 Do any of the camera makers' phone apps apply the correct time and date to cameras, in the way the apps of our £25 knock-off watches do? If not, why not?

4 Another instance of how useful it is that Lightroom makes correcting such errors so easy!

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Hope you'll be able to fix this without too much trouble,

Peter

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Pictures...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132932913@N02/albums

 

[DNSJR]

not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I can change the date by right clicking on the file, go to property details. highlight the date and then change the date

I changed the date from 2020 to 2023





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DNSJR

 

[dubbelxposure]

Hi NicholasD,

If you are using lightroom, you can timeshift dates in the Library module in grid view. Look for the little 9dot grid next to Capture time

 

[NicholasD]

Hi NicholasD,

If you are using lightroom, you can timeshift dates in the Library module in grid view. Look for the little 9dot grid next to Capture time

Thanks! Worked as advertised.