Setting photo date in iPhoto to EXIF date

Hi,
All the photos in my iPhoto 6.0 library have correct EXIF date but somewhere down the line the date as seen in the Information panel on the bottom left got changed. I'd like to mass change the iPhoto 'date' to be the same as in the EXIF date. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Ian

select the photo(s) and adjust time and date (if you want to correct an issue like incorrect camera settings) or batch change time and date if you want totally new dates
LN

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(This works on bash+python+awk too, I think). This works for me because my photos have a exif filed with 'DateTimeOriginal' run identify -verbose in your images and select the correct field. My exif field have a format '%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S' if this is not your case change this.
EDIT For this simple date format case you can use only awk
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Last edited by kazuo (2010-06-23 01:36:28)

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smbrannan
I just googled this and the issue appears to be that png does not support EXIF data, or if it does, only in a very limited way. I'm no expert in this field but have a read of this:
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/blog/?p=3
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Regards
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