renaming photos to capture date/time

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renaming photos to capture date/time

I have been using script from léonie (Script: Batch Changing the Title to the C… - Apple Community) to change the iPhone photo title to the capture date successfully until now. After returning from Thailand, which is 13 hrs ahead of U.S. CST, the script renamed the iPhone photos NOT to the time taken in Thailand, but to the corresponding time in the US (CST), even though the correct (Thailand) time is noted in the info field of each photo (see example below). I am using the Mac Photos app in macOS Sequoia 15.1.1. Any ideas as to how to rename the photos to the date/time taken in the foreign country, and NOT to the date/time in my home country?

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Posted on Nov 29, 2024 10:01 AM

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Nov 29, 2024 4:27 PM in response to Richard.Taylor

Changing my Mac's time zone to Thailand and then renaming with the script did work to rename to the Thai date/time of each photo. I suspect your method would work too, which I will try with my next international travel (unless the script is changed to accommodate for time zone travel). Thank you.

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mike4matt Author

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Nov 29, 2024 4:28 PM in response to Matti Haveri

Changing the time zone to Thailand and then renaming with the script did work. Thank you.

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Nov 29, 2024 1:12 PM in response to mike4matt

Time zones are a headache. One option might be to set the Mac temporarily to Thailand time zone when adding the titles. Or maybe léonie can chime in how to edit the script accordingly.

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Nov 29, 2024 2:16 PM in response to mike4matt

If you select them all and then use Image>Adjust Date and Time to subtract 13 hours from the first one, then all of them will be adjusted by the same amount.

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Nov 29, 2024 10:59 PM in response to mike4matt

I am glad you got it working.

I did not suggest adjusting the times because they seemed to be correct.

It is possible to add time zone to the Photos Info dialog so the user can better see what is going on. Older macOS had a GUI for this but it can be enabled in macOS 13-15 Ventura-Sequoia Photos.app via the Terminal with (re-launch Photos so it takes effect):

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUTimeFormatStrings -dict-add "2" "HH:mm:ss z"

...and reverted to the default time zone-less display with:

defaults delete NSGlobalDomain AppleICUTimeFormatStrings

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