[Leica] Utility to batch correct date/time of Raw files?

Peter Klein boulanger.croissant at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 19:16:28 PDT 2015


QSL indeed, Piers!  100% copy.  :-)
-Peter

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Piers Hemy <piers.hemy at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Should I take your response as a QSL, Peter?
>
> Not a shortwave listener *since* my teenage years, but clear memories
> still. I have the BC-221 around here somewhere.
>
> 73!
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+piers.hemy <javascript:;>=
> gmail.com at leica-users.org <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Peter Klein
> Sent: 13 October 2015 02:51
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] [OM] Utility to batch correct date/time of Raw files?
>
> Ya know, you're right. Why bother?  So I won't.  Thanks, Nathan and Piers.
>
> Amusing footnote:  I've been a shortwave listener and amateur radio
> operator since my early teen years. So I always have a clock set to GMT (or
> UTC, if you prefer) in the house.
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Piers Hemy <piers.hemy at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Me too. Cameras are set to GMT/Zulu time, and stay that way. I just have
> > to make sure that all cameras are synchronised (if only I could).
> >
> > Just as Nathan says, I am generally only in one place at a time, and
> those
> > places do not move significantly over time, so it is never an issue to
> > "correct" for an image in bright sunshine taken at 0200, since it was
> taken
> > in a timezone far removed from Greenwich (UK!). Conversely, if I do find
> > myself in two different timezones on the same day, there is no question
> > about the sequence of the photos, since the timestamp is always
> unambiguous.
> >
> > Piers
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+piers.hemy <javascript:;>=
> gmail.com at leica-users.org <javascript:;>] On
> > Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
> > Sent: 12 October 2015 07:42
> > To: lug
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] [OM] Utility to batch correct date/time of Raw
> files?
> >
> > Why does it matter? While you were over here, you were not over there, so
> > your pictures have the correct date and are in the correct order—unless
> you
> > were in two places at the same time? I never bother changing the clock on
> > my cameras when I travel to other time zones, just as I do not bother
> with
> > daylight savings time.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Alicante, Spain
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> <
> > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
> > YNWA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 12 Oct 2015, at 07:57, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > On my recent trip to Spain, I neglected to change the date and time on
> > my camera's clock.  So all the EXIF data is nine hours earlier than it
> > should be. Is there a reliable utility that can batch-edit the EXIF data
> in
> > the Olympus Raw files (.ORF) and correct them to when they oughta be?   I
> > want to be able to tell the program, "Take all files in this folder and
> > advance the time in the EXIF by 9 hours, so both the date and time will
> be
> > correct.
> > >
> > > I have FastStone Image viewer on my PC.  It appears to have this
> > feature.  Has anyone used it? Is it reliable?
> > >
> > > Other suggestions happily considered as well.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > --Peter
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