Smart Collection date problems

I have some pictures in my catalog that have completely incorrect dates. My step son didn't set the date on his camera and they are in the year 2048. These pictures keep appearing completely out of context and drives me nuts!
For example, they are in the Past Month smart collection. And in the new Past Week smart collection I created. They are not in a This Week or This Month smart collections I just created. I really would like to use "Past Week" as opposed to "This week" but it is useless.
I haven't changed them because I don't know the real date but, alas, I want to keep them. It doesn't look like I can remove the date (which date does LR use anyway?!) in LR. Nor does LR support partial dates. I guess I'm going to have to make something up. Does "Edit Capture Time" now work in LR? I suppose an approximate date would be better than a completely wrong date (but of course I will forget it's not an exact date...)
Any comments, suggestions?
Judy

Just use your smart collection to hold all photos with the date 2048. Then edit the date in the exif data on the first photo, then select all the rest and sync the rest of the photos. I used Edit Capture Time and it worked for me. You might be able to change the date by selecting all of them first, and then doing an edit capture time. One piece of advice though, is to give them a unique keyword before messing with the date. That way if you need to re-do anything you will have a way to collect the photos.
To answer your question, I believe LR uses the capture time when you do a date search.

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'allar uck ig' will match photo A, but not B.
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'Big Mallard Ducks'
then Contains Words:
Big - matches
Mallard - matches
Big Mallard - matches
Mallard Big - matches
Big Mallard Ducks - does not
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SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 DECLARE
2 CURSOR c_server IS
3 SELECT * FROM TRAN_DATA;
4 TYPE transerver IS TABLE OF c_server%ROWTYPE;
5 cur_server transerver;
6 TYPE mytran IS TABLE OF TRAN_DATA%ROWTYPE;
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9 END_TIME NUMBER;
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[b] 17 EXIT WHEN c_server%NOTFOUND;
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19 INSERT INTO tran_data_servers VALUES cur_Server(i);
20 END LOOP;
21 CLOSE c_server;
22 SELECT count(*) INTO l_count FROM tran_data_servers;
23 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('row processing = '||L_cOUNT);
24 END_TIME := DBMS_UTILITY.GET_tIME;
25 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('TIME FOR CURSOR BULK FOR ALL = '||TO_CHAR(END_TIME-START_TIME));
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28 SELECT * BULK COLLECT INTO c_tran FROM TRAN_DATA;
29 FORALL i IN c_tran.FIRST..c_tran.LAST
30 INSERT INTO array_tran_data VALUES c_tran(i);
31 END_TIME := DBMS_UTILITY.GET_tIME;
32 L_count:= null;
33 SELECT count(*) INTO l_count FROM array_tran_data;
34 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('row processing = '||L_cOUNT);
35 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('select into BULK FOR ALL = '||TO_CHAR(END_TIME-START_TIME));
36* END;
37 /
row processing = 287400
TIME FOR CURSOR BULK FOR ALL = 789
row processing = 287417
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PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 DECLARE
2 CURSOR c_server IS
3 SELECT * FROM TRAN_DATA;
4 TYPE transerver IS TABLE OF c_server%ROWTYPE;
5 cur_server transerver;
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9 END_TIME NUMBER;
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17 FORALL i IN cur_server.FIRST..cur_server.LAST
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25 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('TIME FOR CURSOR BULK FOR ALL = '||TO_CHAR(END_TIME-START_TIME));
26 EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'TRUNCATE TABLE array_TRAN_DATA';
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row processing = 287417
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row processing = 287417
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As you can see if we put the EXIT WHEN c_server%NOTFOUND; before the forall statement then not all the row will processing, but if we put EXIT WHEN c_server%NOTFOUND; after the forall statement it's will processing all rows. So maybe the solutions just put the EXIT WHEN c_server%NOTFOUND; after the forall statement. As you can see also there's the different bulk collect with implicit and explicit cursor, i think using explicit with limit will be more faster.
Thank you
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