How to adjust dates in photo EXIF headers (and copy to file date)
Have you ever had the problem that your camera's date was misset or reset, so all your EXIF and file dates were broken?
In this case you need to adjust the date in several images and preferably alter the file date accordingly. This is much easier than you thought, two simple commands using Linux tool exiv2.
Most Linux distributions provide packaged version of exiv2. Check out your package manager. There is also a Windows version for download.
exiv2 -Y 32 -O 4 -D 24 -a 19:00 ad *.JPG
This command will move date in all JPG files by 32 years, 4 months, 24 days and 19 hours. (Well, my camera's date was reset to 1980.)
Now, copy EXIF date to file modification time:
exiv2 -T mv *.JPG
And finally, an easy to remember command to print EXIF info of a file:
exiv2 pr IMG_6773.JPG
On Ubuntu you can install the exiv2 command by:
sudo apt-get install exiv2
To read more run
exiv2 --help
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