Sometimes a image files creation date is wrong and have to be corrected. This is a script I use to set a files creation date to the photos date retrieved from EXIF tags. The exiftool program should be available to run this script.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
$|++;

use Image::ExifTool qw(ImageInfo);

use Time::Local;

for my $file (@ARGV) {
  my $ii = ImageInfo($file, qw(DateTimeOriginal DateTime))
    or warn("Skipping $file\n"), next;
  my ($created) =
    grep /\S/, @$ii{qw(DateTimeOriginal DateTime)};
  next unless $created;
  warn "using $created for $file\n";
  if ($created =~ s/([-+ ])(\d\d):(\d\d)$//) {
    my ($sign, $hour, $minute) = ($1, $2, $3);
    # warn "ignoring offset of $sign $hour:$minute\n";
  }
  my @digits = $created =~ /(\d+)/g or next;
  if ($digits[0] < 1900) {
    warn "bad year $digits[0] for $file";
    next;
  }
  $digits[0] -= 1900;
  $digits[1] -= 1;
  my $gmtime = timegm(reverse @digits);
  if ($gmtime > time or $gmtime < time - 86400*90) {
    warn "preposterous gmtime for $file: ", scalar gmtime $gmtime;
    # next;
  }
  utime($gmtime, $gmtime, $file) or warn "Cannot utime on $file: $!";
}

Save it as datebyexif.pl

Usage:

./datebyexif.pl *.JPG
Download the datebyexif.pl script

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