Batch rename by date created??

I made the huge mistake of setting up my camera to restart the image count everytime I put a new memory card in, then I transfered them all to my computer, erased the cards only to then realize I've got a bunch of photos with the same name.  Not a huge problem but now Lightroom only finds one of the two files with the same name.
My solution is to do a batch rename in Bridge but that didn't work because it used the file names for the order.  What I want is all the files to be name 0001-1500 in the order they were taken.  Can this be done?
Other ideas?  Or maybe someone knows how to get Lightroom to see both?
Thanks...

My solution is to do a batch rename in Bridge but that didn't work because it
used the file names for the order.  What I want is all the files to be name
0001-1500 in the order they were taken.  Can this be done?
In Bridge use the path bar icon (showing sort by filename, top right side
Bridge window) and change this to date created, now they will be showing in
two separate sequence order groups. Select the files per session and then
choose batch renaming.
If you don't have the path bar active use the menu view-sort.
Be aware that you can auto rename the files in both Lightroom and Bridge
(with Photodownloader) during file ingestion from card reader. You might
also want to include the creation date (yyyymmdd) and sequence number to it
so it auto renames them to a correct date and when choosing a 4 digit
sequence number it is very unlikely double filenames will happen ever again,
regardless the settings in camera

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