Shift Dates in Aperture?

I have a set of photos that were imported in iPhoto and the film roll in iPhoto contained the correct date, but evidently the EXIF data from the camera says they were a year older than what they actually were! Is there a quick way to batch-shift these photos' dates +1 year?
Anyone know of a way to quickly script this perhaps in Automator or Apple Script?

more research:
the camera and image time zones are stored in Other tags and can be read/written by AppleScript. it might be possible to change the image's date (even by 1 year as in your case) by repeatedly changing the time zones. I'd need to fully understand how the time zones work before writing the script.
the AppleScript terms for the time zone tags are:
custom tag "cameraTimeZoneName", and
custom tag "imageTimeZoneName"
they are strings, probably made up from the same values that build the Time Zone popup menu in the Batch Change dialog. for example, the imageTimeZoneName for one of my images is "Etc/GTM+8".
but it's important to remember that the time zone changes only apply to the image version, not to the master.
a better solution might be to export the masters, use an EXIF-savvy app to change the EXIF date and re-import the masters into Aperture.

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