Edit Capture Time - not working?

I recently updated my Lightroom to LR 5.3, and since then, I haven't been able to edit the Capture Time on my images. I select METADATA --> Edit Capture Time. This used to bring up another dialog box - now it does nothing. I'm in Library, Grid view. Any suggestions? Is this a problem with this version?
(side note: when I went to Help, About Adobe Lightroom - to get my current software version, it randomly said "applying preset" to all my images and never brought up a dialog box with the version number. When I did it again, same thing. ??)

Dorin: I know that the Capture Time/Date in the files themselves are not changing because I check the metadata by looking at the files in Finder, and in Photoshop (View > File Browser and File > File Info).
No, the file modification date does not change when I do Edit Capture Time, but it
b does
change when I do Save to Metadata (but only in the NEF, not in the JPG).
In LR's Library Module > Metadata palette > EXIF section, all 3 of those date/time fields
b do
change per my Edit Capture Time (
b not
just the 1st and 3rd fields that you mentioned), all the while no changes on the files themselves (as I've described).
Supposedly, if "Write date or time changes into proprietary raw files" is selected in Catalog Settings > Metadata > EXIF, then running Metadata > Edit Capture Time
b should
change the files to show the corrected Date/Time in the file itself (and thus show up as corrected no matter what app you're viewing it from). This is supposed to be the case, whether the file is a proprietary raw file, jpg, or otherwise. But it ain't happening!

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- Batch file arguments file (required) here LR-xmpdatetime2exif.args: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/LR-datetimexmp2exif.args
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- Batch file to display set of EXIF metadata here - list-exif-tags-sample.bat: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/list-exif-tags-sample.bat
- Batch file to display set of XMP metadata here - list-xmp-tags-sample.bat: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/list-xmp-tags-sample.bat
- Batch file to display complete set of metadata here- list-metadata-tags-sample.bat: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/list-metadata-tags-sample.bat
- Sample photo file here sample.jpg: http://www.hackneys.com/photos/lr/sample.jpg
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2. LR, PSE, Bridge, etc. use, either exclusively or primarily, XMP metadata, even though they may label/display it as EXIF. LR, for instance, only displays the XMP date/time values, even though they are labeled EXIF.
3. The EXIF specification assigns time field names different than those commonly used in various tools when labeling/displaying EXIF time data fields. You will find the very same EXIF date/time field labeled a wide variety of ways in even a handful of tools.
4. The XMP specification has a namespace area labeled EXIF. Adding to the confusion even more, the XMP-EXIF namespace has date/time field names that duplicate those of EXIF date/time fields.
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