Script to rename multiple events in iPhoto.

Hi.
I use iPhoto 9.6 on Yosemite, MacBook pro 2011. . I have a bunch of unnamed events that I'd like to export to a backup disk. When I do so, the events are named according to dates in the format "July 28, 2015", for example. However, I'd like to use instead the format "2015-07-28", but I'd like to avoid having to rename the individual events manually. (I know how to use the batch function to rename the photo titles individually in this manner, but that is not what I want.)
Can anybody offer a solution to this? Eg using Automator/AppleScript or something else.
Thx.
S

I'm still quite new to this, but I think this would do the trick based on what you've supplied, note the -whatif so it doesn't screw up if the output isn't quite what you want.
[xml]$fileinfo = Get-Content -Path .\fileinfo.xml
foreach ($doc in $fileinfo.ABC_TitleDocument) {
$filepath = $doc.ABC_TitleDocumentProperties.ContentElements.ContentTransfer.ExternalRef -creplace "file://",""
$fileext = (Get-Item -Path $filepath).Extension
$newfilepath = "$($doc.ABC_TitleDocumentProperties.DocumentTitle)_$($doc.ABC_TitleDocumentProperties.ABC_DocumentID)$fileext"
Rename-Item -Path $filepath -NewName $newfilepath -WhatIf

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