Dates and times of clips imported from miniDVD

I have a Sony camcorder DCR DVD405, and I just tried importing some clips from one of the finalized miniDVD's I recorded on it.
I have iMovie '09. I noticed that the clips get imported just fine, but the date/time stamp attached to these imported clips is not the same as the date/time stamp it shows when I open it in the mac DVD player or when I see the clips on my camcorder. The date/time stamps match exactly between the DVD player and the camcorder, but for whatever reason iMovie import is unable to get the same date/time.
I imported 3 clips and the three are simply 2-3 seconds apart instead of being 1-2 days apart.
Anyone know why mac DVD player can detect the date but iMovie (or the import utility behind iMovie) cannot detect the same?

iphonejunky wrote:
At the end of the day, one can always adjust the Date/Time after the import by:
- - Selecting an Event clip or clips
- - File > Adjust Date and Time...
just my 2 cents.
Yes, I can do that, but I have 3 years of videos on miniDVD that I have imported and in order for me to adjust the date and time on each clip, it would take me forever.
There's got to be something that can be done either with perhaps some unpublished config settings for importing, or maybe some workaround to get iMovie to "read" the date/time on the DVD.
Does anyone else have this experience (and then have you found a workaround for it)?

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