Iphoto date change giving wrong date

Hi,

She used the Adjust date and time as each picture had a different date. Did not think to try batch change for the single pictures.

I just find it interesting that the automatic date and time preference solved the problem, pointing to some sort of code issue.

Thanks for the pointer on the batch change.

Thanks RadMac I am assuming you meant in the system preferences and not in iphoto - I turned off the automatic but... no nothing still wild dates!! Yes I,m sure its a bug - maybe i should contact apple genius??

i did sent a report to apple but do they actually follow up

alaz

hey the batch change system worked!! thanks everyone

alan

Six months along and I discovered the same issue with photos imported from a camera with a bad date set up. Changing the "set date and time automatically" in System Preferences worked. Thanks for the advice and work around. Hoping that the iPhoto bug fix will come soon. I am current on iPhoto 11 (version 9.4.3) and the issue was still there.

I found it nice and easy to solve this problem. If you use the "Batch Change" option instead of the "Adjust Date and Time" option it worked for me.

thanks, gameroony- this worked for me. i too have had this problem for years.

Silly question but how do you specify AM/PM when changing the time stamp on a photo? When I go into Adjust Date and Time, I can change the time easily enough but iPhoto seems always to assume that's it's AM and doesn't offer me any way to set the time as PM.

Use the up or down arrow to move the hour to the am or pm version. It's like resetting a digital clock by running the hour around till it is in the other 12 hour period:

From this

to this by advancing the hour with the up button by one hour:

Thanks but the problem is that there is no "AM" or "PM" in that window for me, hence the question - this screenshot is from Adjust Date and Time but it's the same in Batch Change.

Check the Sustem/Language & Regior/Advanced/Times preference pane to make sure you have AM/PM appended to the time.

Solved - thanks!

I know this is an old thread, but I'm having the same problem, Date was set wrong in the camera. When I try to fix the dates in iPhoto it won't accept the change, and in fact just goes to some random date. I would like to try turning off the automatic date and time setting in preferences as suggested here by RadMac, , but I cannot find that setting. Can someone advise me? Using iPhoto 11 9.4.3. Thank you

Apple menu ==> system preferences ==> date & time

LN

I thought the post was regarding iPhoto date/time preferences. I changed the system pref as Larry HN indicates, no difference in iPhoto. I set it to a 2016 date and when I told it to update all the batch changed photos, I ended up with 1739. I tried adjusting one photo individually and ended up with the event having happened in 1671. has any other solution been discovered?

Do the following:

1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down to open the First Aid window. Be sure to follow the circled recommendation in the screenshot.

2 - apply Option #4, Rebuild Database.

3 - check the dates and, if necessary, try resetting those that are wrong.