Add 90s date stamp from "date created" to photos

Hi
I'm about to order a photobook (christmas gift for some relatives). The book have nearly 300 pictures in it,
The pictures need to have dates. I could add a date manually for each picture but I havent really got time for it.
All photos have proper exif data, with date created info. Does anyone know how i can just destructivly stamp
this on to the photo itself? Bit of a odd problem, I don't think bridge/ps can do this with its default
functionality - but I know I have seen this feature somewhere sometime in some software product!
And yes I know date stamps look terrible, but most of the family photos arent exactly fine art to begin with :>
Any tips appreciated, it would be a huge time saver for me!

It can be done with a Photoshop Script that adda a text layer usinf the date in the EXIF. An example is my stampexif script. It adds a text layer which can be used within an action then the added text layer can be positioned and styled by the action. The script would be easy to change and format the text content to your likeing.
Link to the script http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/StampExif.jsx

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