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Hi,

I get this error message when trying to change creation date on some jpg images. It works for all images, except those with original time stamp where seconds is one digit, e.g 10:30:05. It looks like exiftool think that zero is a white space. Then I get this error message:

"Warning: Invalid time string (2022:07:11 10:30: 5) when shifting DateTimeOriginal".
I´m using this terminal command:

exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal-=43:01:0 0:0:0" -IPTC:Caption-Abstract="My description" "-filemodifydate<datetimeoriginal" -overwrite_original /Path/To/My/Folder
I guess it´s a bug?

I´m on MacOS 12.5.1 with exiftool 12.44

Is "2022:07:11 10:30: 5" the original datetimeoriginal?  That is, with the space?

Alan is probably correct - you have incorrectly formatted dates in your images.

exiftool may be able to fix them up - something like:

exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal<datetimeoriginal" xxx.jpg
(Test thoroughly before you try on your production files)

Quote from: greybeard on August 20, 2022, 10:01:25 AM

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exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal<datetimeoriginal" xxx.jpg

Works correctly here
C:\>exiftool -G1 -a -s -DateTimeOriginal y:\!temp\Test4.jpg
[ExifIFD]       DateTimeOriginal                : 2022:07:11 10:30: 5

C:\>exiftool -P -overwrite_original "-DateTimeOriginal<DateTimeOriginal" y:\!temp\Test4.jpg
    1 image files updated

C:\>exiftool -G1 -a -s -DateTimeOriginal y:\!temp\Test4.jpg
[ExifIFD]       DateTimeOriginal                : 2022:07:11 10:30:05