Adjusting Date & Time of Photos

Under the Image menu, there's an option to change the date and time. When I click on a group of 20 photos and choose that option, it that all 20 will be adjusted. But not all 20 are actually adjusted. What am i missing?

Hi Terence, thanks for your reply. Here is a couple of images of what the photo data looks like while on the hard drive (note the 2007 date), and after being imported to Photos for Mac (where the 2007 date has completely disappeared and therefore it organises it as a 2015 photo. Does this help?

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WARNING: Adjust Date & Time doesn't work

I bought Aperture 2.0 because I was thrilled they finally have an adjust date/time feature. The interface is great, but it simply doesn't work.
I was trying to adjust a batch of images by 30 seconds to get it in sync with another camera, however, it ended up adjusting it by 30 minutes!
I was trying to get the time to change from:
1:33:09 PM to
1:32:39 PM
and the image ended up at
1:00:33 PM
Anyone else had a similar problem or a solution for this serious bug?

I added my own topic earlier this morning. In my case, it's working just fine if my primary image is RAW and all selected images are also RAW (Canon 300D). It also works just fine if the primary and all selected images are JPEG (from either a Canon S3 or a Panasonic Lumix digicam). However, if the primary image is RAW (Canon 300D) and any selected images are JPEG (anything modified in iPhoto, or originally shot in JPEG from by Canon 300D), all **** breaks loose on those JPEG image dates.
I have some which went back a few months, but most of them jumped forward between 6 months and 2 years.
Again, something is severely broken with this function.
Anyone know how to get the original dates back? Please? I'm setting aside several hours tonight to restore the pre-2.0 backup, export my 2.0-only projects, and import those back in, just forgetting any changes I'd made to historical project files in the meantime. This really *****.

Adjust date/time for multiple images

Wonder if anyone else is having this problem (some posts seem similar but not exactly the same)
1. Clean library (mix of DNG, JPEG and TIFF files)
2. Need to change dates to match other images in the project
3. Selected multiple images and used Metadata -> Adjust Date/Time
4. "Lead" image (bright white box) date and time adjusted accordingly but other images in the selection date have their capture date and time generated apparently randomly (I'm trying to set 08/01/2008 but I'm getting anything from 27/03/1982 to 24/12/2010!)
5. The dates do appear random - repeating the process will lead to different dates in the IPTC field
6. I've clean installed everything - drive format, OSX10.6.2, Aperture 3 - and rebuilt the library. The problem remains unchanged!
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Adrian

I'd actually looked at this before attempting the metadata adjustment but checked it again just now to ensure I wasn't missing anything.
I guess if it's a shift based on the relative differences in the date of the imaes selected then that could explain the apparent random variations I'm getting. Although this would certainly be useful for the time stamp, when I'm trying to ensure all images in a project have the same date, relative changes certainly aren't!
I'd have to run it again tonight to confirm by comparing before/after adjustment dates. If that's what going on I think I'll have to get Adobe Bridge to do the heavy lifting for me..... just a shame I have to drag in another app rather than doing everything inside Aperture.

Aperture 3.1.2 on 10.6.7 mangles TIFF masters after adjust date/time

Bumping the following thread that's now a year old:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11799201
Adjusting date/time in Aperture 3.1.2, ticking the "also change master file" option now causes Aperture to display a "unsupported image format" box, also indicating that the pixel size is 900x600.
I'm at a loss, any ideas?

Matt,
Welcome to the user-supported Aperture discussion group.
Does this happens with all TIFFs? Do your TIFFs happen to be from a scanner? If so you may be interested in [this topic|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12924902&#12924902].
nathan

Adjusting Date/Time Corrupts Masters

I have an issue with Aperture 3.1.1. I would appreciate any comments or thoughts.
I have scanned some slides, and imported them into Aperture. During the import I renamed them (masters also) to include the file date (20110111_001 etc.) I stored the masters in a folder on the hard drive of my MacBook Pro.
At this point everything is fine, however, the file date is incorrect. I use Adjust Date/Time to set the date to 19750901_etc. After this step the master becomes a solid black image. No detail of any kind. Preview will not display it, and neither will Aperture. The original image is not recoverable. The versions are generally OK, but some take on the solid black image.
Obviously this is worrying, so I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this, or if I’m just doing something wrong.
Thanks
Garry

Sliek,
*I found a solution!*
There are many date tags in the JPEG standard. It appears that your scanner software makes a "Create Date" tag, but no "Date Time Original" tag. (See my footnote about this.) However, When operating on a regular JPG, Aperture's "Adjust Date and Time" in master function updates both of those tags if they are there.
When applying that function to your 15M scan, Aperture truncates some of the EXIF data and the master looses a little tiny bit of its file size. It consequently cannot be read as a valid picture.
Here's the solution, and it's pretty easy as long as you're not afraid of the command prompt. I used EXIFTool to create the "Date Time Original" tag using the date from the "Create Date" tag. Obviously the new file was marginally larger, but it also survived the "Adjust Date and Time" function! Here's the command I used:
exiftool '-CreateDate>DateTimeOriginal' Scan-110106-0002.jpg
So, you've uncovered one of two problems here:
1. Your scanner program writes a flawed header on the JPG; or
2. Aperture pukes when it cannot update "Date Time Original" if it can update "Create Date".
I have not played with existing "good" files from a camera to determine what happens when I remove "Date Time Original" and put that picture through the Date adjustment torture. That would validate or invalidate choice 1.
Let me know if this solution sounds viable and you would like more help. EXIFTool is easily scriptable, and you can run it on all files in a directory to perform the same function in one fell swoop.
nathan
Footnote:
DateTimeOriginal: date/time when original image was taken
CreateDate: Date the image was digitized and made into a JPG.
So, in theory, DateTimeOriginal is what you are trying to modify, while CreateDate should be when you put your print through the scanner. It makes sense that the scanner doesn't fill in CreateDate, as that usually isn't part of the functionality of scanner software.

Does Adjust Date & Time Modify EXIF data?

If I use the adjust date and time does it modify the exif data in the original photo, so if I export the photos elsewhere it will preserve these edits? I was using Picasa and fixed the date and time on a few photos only to find them back to 1/1/2002 when I imported my photos to iPhoto

I just saw this checkbox today and hoped it meant that. I've really wanted this feature for a long time now.

Adjusting Date/Time

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.
Let me start by saying I am totally frustrated!!! I am trying to adjust the dates/times from a 10 day vacation. I have created an album for each day of the trip and would like the correct date for each album to be reflected in the info window. Having said that, I got pictures from other people on the trip and of course they never set their cameras to the correct date/time. So when I used the feature to "Adjust Date and Time", I now have photos that still have the incorrect date. Some of them aren't even in the same year. I am assuming this is happening since the date set on their camera was probably 5 or more years before the current year.
One thing that is odd is the fact that when I do a sort of my entire library, they are sorted entirely correctly. So that is good, I guess I am just a little anal and when I look at the info window, I want to see the date the picture was taken.
So my question is, is there a way to get a group of photos to reflect the date I want? At this point I really don't care about the time but wouldn't mind if that worked as well. I just don't want the photos to say they are from 2010 or later, when they aren't.
Thanks

Try selecting the event or album and using batch change from the "photos" menu.
There you can select time, date, or description.
This would set all the photos to the same date and time.
Also modify original.
I believe that is what you're looking for.
good luck
BTW if you didn't know the "adjust time and date" shifts selected photo date, time the amount selected.
Handy if you camera was off and hour or whatever.
Message was edited by: Chuck Usher

How to print date & time in photos

Thanks for the help.
I need to print either photos with time and dates in them... or the Bridge contact sheet with date and time info.
The final printed image will be used in court to photo document evidence.
Do I have to do a screen capture or is there some other way?
My camera will not allow me to imprint time and date.
I'm using CS4 on both Windows and Mac.
Thanks again in advance for the taking the time to help.
Dances With Pixels
I may have sent this twice, but I'm new to this and this is my first time trying to post.

Thank you for taking the time to respond. Much appreciated.
And will follow up on your suggestions.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:55:31 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How to print date & time in photos
I think there are (various) Scripts about for that.
For example addExifDate1.5.jsx:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1346521
One should be able to adapt it to include the time.
You could ask in the Photoshop Scripting Forum or http://www.ps-scripts.com/
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I'm really really annoyed. When I import images into LR 2.1, it changes the date/time of the image back by 1 hour - I assume its changing to standard time from daylight savings time. Why is this done? There doesn't seem to be a configuration option for this.

"CR Henderson - 4:40pm Nov 23, 08 PST (#35 of 35)
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2. Take pictures and download them to PC hard drive.
3. Convert to .DNG using DNG Converter
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5. Import into LR
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Adjust Date & Time doesn't stick on export

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Tony:
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