Windows XP photo file property "Date Picture Taken"?

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What metadata tag fills in the Windows XP photo file property "Date Picture
Taken"? I've scanned photos and added Exif tags for Exif.Image.DateTime,
Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal, Exif.Photo.DateTimeDigitized, yet "Date Picture
Taken" property remains blank. My digital camera photos all have that info
filled in and I've extracted all their metadata but those seem to be the
only fields with dates/time in them. I've been using exiv2 and jhead to read
and set the tags.

thanks
LJB
 
LJB said:
What metadata tag fills in the Windows XP photo file property "Date
Picture Taken"? I've scanned photos and added Exif tags for
Exif.Image.DateTime, Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal,
Exif.Photo.DateTimeDigitized, yet "Date Picture Taken" property
remains blank. My digital camera photos all have that info filled in
and I've extracted all their metadata but those seem to be the only
fields with dates/time in them. I've been using exiv2 and jhead to
read and set the tags.
thanks
LJB
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Windows Live Photo Gallery can change the
Date Picture Taken. And it can add that info
to a scan that does not have the date on the
advanced summary tab,
http://download.live.com/photogallery

And/or...maybe the following freebie would
be worth a try:

EXIF Date Changer
http://tinyurl.com/2j9f9b
or...
http://www.zysoftonline.com/pages/products/exif-date-changer.php

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
John Inzer said:
=============================================
Windows Live Photo Gallery can change the
Date Picture Taken. And it can add that info
to a scan that does not have the date on the
advanced summary tab,
http://download.live.com/photogallery

And/or...maybe the following freebie would
be worth a try:

EXIF Date Changer
http://tinyurl.com/2j9f9b
or...
http://www.zysoftonline.com/pages/products/exif-date-changer.php

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
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Thanks, John. That tool will do an offset time alright.
I was looking for something I could use to set the date directly. I found
one, ExifTool GUI, at
http://tinyurl.com/3xlubu
or http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.htm
which will do what I want. It is a Windows GUI for ExifTool by Phil Harvey,
http://tinyurl.com/jhwp2
or http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/.
 
LJB said:
Thanks, John. That tool will do an offset time alright.
I was looking for something I could use to set the date directly. I
found one, ExifTool GUI, at
http://tinyurl.com/3xlubu
or http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.htm
which will do what I want. It is a Windows GUI for ExifTool by Phil
Harvey, http://tinyurl.com/jhwp2
or http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/.
Click to expand...
============================
Thanks for the update.
--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Although I haven't tracked down the exact metadata tag that needs to be set
for the Windows XP "date picture taken" property, I have found that the date
must be something newer than "1980:01:01 00:00:01". All the tools I've tried
have actually been working OK but Windows can't report anything older than
1980.

My metadata editing tool preference has to be ExifTool,
http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/, by Phil Harvey and ExifTool GUI,
http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.htm. ExifTool allows
me to create a DOS batch file to process a large number of files at once,
setting the dates, GPS info, author and comment fields. ExifTool GUI is a
nice user interface to read and set one photo at a time.

LJB
 
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