Editing EXIF Image Date?

I accidentally set the date information of my camera
to an incorrect year, which I noticed when I imported
the fotos into Aperture.
Is there any way to correct the image date from
within Aperture? - Ideally in the master file?
Using a 3rd party app would be acceptable as long as
it is free, as I only need to correct 10 fotos.
Thanks, Hans-Uwe
There is a program caled EXIFtools that can alter the image date - there is no way tochange that, even for versions, in Aperture (a much requested feature for all sorts of reasons).
If you do change the masters you'll have to re-import as Aperture will not pick up exif changes to the master after import.

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