Removing Time Stamp

[quarkrad]

Is it possible to remove the time element of the captured date/time data capture in the exif data?   When I display my photos by creation date I get both the date and the time the picture was taken - what I would like to be displayed is just the date. I have come across many exif editors that allow the time data to be changed but not removed.

[Phil Harvey]

You can set an EXIF date/time tag to whatever you want.  By default, ExifTool does some validation of the date/time value, but this is disabled with the -n option, allowing you to write anything you want:

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> exiftool a.jpg -createdate=now
    1 image files updated

> exiftool a.jpg -createdate -G1
[ExifIFD]       Create Date                     : 2012:11:26 07:09:18

> exiftool a.jpg -createdate="this is a test"
Warning: Invalid date/time (use YYYY:mm:dd HH:MM:SS[.ss][+/-HH:MM|Z]) in ExifIFD:CreateDate (PrintConvInv)
Nothing to do.

> exiftool a.jpg -createdate="this is a test" -n
    1 image files updated

> exiftool a.jpg -createdate -G1
[ExifIFD]       Create Date                     : this is a test

In your specific case, the EXIF specification actually allows any date/time component to be empty (filled with spaces), so you should do something like this:

exiftool -createdate="2012:11:26   :  :  " -n a.jpg

- Phil