Good info to know. Thanks Igor.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > The question of adjusting the time in the EXIF of the photos had come up on > this list a few times in the past. > This frequently is an issue when you forget to adjust the time zone. > > LR provides the possibility to adjust the date and time to a specified value > (which is inconvenient for multiple photos taken over several days of a > trip) or to shift by set number of hours (which is limited to +/- 24 hours. > > During the recent trip, in addition to my regular bag with Pentax DSLR, I > took a small P&S. I had to charge the battery, and the date was reset. > So, I made a mistake while setting the date: The date was 1 year (2018), and > 3 hours ahead. > So, I would have died if I had to adjust the time zone in LR 365 times... > :-) > > > The tool I used was "FastStone Image Viewer" (it is free, I've been using it > on Windows for many years). > It has a bunch of good batch tools (including smart renaming, resizing, > adding watermarks, text, etc., and making some minor adjustments to the > photos). > It also can shift the hours, but the maximum number is 999. So, I didn't > want to make that adjustment 9 times (although that would be a close number > of operations). > Instead, first, for each of the 5 days I used the camera, I change "date > only", setting the correct date/year. And then for all the files, and > adjusted time by -3 hours. > While doing that, I kept the option (which is check-marked by default) to > set the file timestamp to the same (as EXIF) date/time. > > I thought maybe this tool (and approach) would be useful to someone on this > list. > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
