Write capture date by position on grid

I have many scanned photos. These have dates printed on them, but obviously no time. I can guess the order in which they were captured, and have managed to arrange them in the right order in lightroom.
I rather not go into each photo and say, for example, that this photo is 1 minute before that photo, and so on. I want an automated way to do this. My question is how I can get Lightroom to understand that the custom order on the grip is the captured order?

hhost05 wrote:
What does the 1st option in this menu do, I wonder? Never used it.
It copies all exif metadata from your source file(s) to your catalog, making it available for lib filtering, smart collections, viewing, etc...
Lightroom only supports a subset of exif metadata - if you want the rest, you need ExifMeta - option #1.
Note: if you only want to view it, one photo at a time, I recommend using Jeffrey Friedl's metadata viewer instead - he did a very nice job of presenting it (tabular, color-coded, ..).
For plugin-specific support, please contact me outside the forum - thanks.
Rob

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need bit help in resolving query related to custom added field in Tcode migo.
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To try to be clearer, I've been using Elements 5.0 which organizes my photos (all jpg) by date. The date the photo was taken (which is also the date the file was created) are important to me. Those fields are respected by other Adobe products (Album, Elements 5.0 and Bridge CS2). Somehow LR 1.1 treats this date differently and with less importance than other Adobe and non-Adobe applications.
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Christopher wrote:
"I hear ya, but if someone could just say, this is how dates are supposed to work ... that would be helpful. In particular, what fields or fields does the Metadata Browser use to sort an image into a date bin? If I knew that, I might be able to determine why so many of my images are put into the Unknown Date heading."
Here we go:
1. None DateTime tag defined in exif (or DateTime tags corrupted)
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Though I read the other messages about dates in LR, I didn't find any valuable answer for my problem:
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I have a lot of Tiff files, that come from negativ scans.
If I select only one picture in the library grid, every thing goes right.
If I select more than one picture (ctrl A, or using "shift click" or "control click"), I have very surprising results.
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