Batch change of import date of pictures?

ola experts, i'm fairly new to aperture 3.1.1 .. after weeks of migrating 170 gigs of pix from iphoto '09 (8.1.2) due to iphoto 9.1.1 stuffing up my digital pix life, some of the events have their dates wrong at the then imported date to aperture..
is there an "easy" way of batch processing the affected project pix to the original dates when created?
thx francois, and no thanx to apple/aapl

Have a look at *Metadata->Adjust Date and Time...*

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