False Time zone adjustments: how to reset?

Hi all,

having thoroughly misunderstood the way Aperture's "adjust time zone" works at first (I think I finally got it now), I've set about 2400 photos with completely wrong time zone informations, resulting on very odd Image dates being given, and some photos even having changed their dates.

Is there a way to reset these informations to match those of the master image files, i.e. undo all of my various changes and steps?

I've read about using the "Lift Tool" for this purpose here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2995324&#2995324.
However, I'm apparently simply far too stupid to understand this. What am I supposed to check/uncheck before I "stamp" pictures? How do I "revert to original date" while the stamp tool is still active?

Or is there some other way of coaxing Aperture into forgetting about the Time zone changes I did, and go back to the informations in the master file?

TIA for any insights into this puzzling problem from a dummy.

MacBook Pro 15.4" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 11, 2007 2:47 PM

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Mar 11, 2007 7:40 PM in response to William Lloyd

to build on this ...

say your camera was set for CST, you imported as CST, but your camera should be EST and your shot was in PST ...

you have a few problems ...

the first thing you do in the batch change menu is to select the adjust timzone radial button ...

then in camera's time zone enter the one that it should be ... if it is right, dont change it will just f you up more ...

then in the actual select the one it should be ... note that if you chose america you will have to pick the city that is closest/same time zone ... or otherwise just chose US and the timezone ... assuming you are in the us ... otherwise do something similar for the country you are in ... 😉

i have had to do this before when i thought the camera was right and it wasn't and i was traveling ...

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