.
Thanks again for the responses.
'touch' worked. I used this syntax:
$ touch -t 0705141341 filename.jpg
That set the file date as: May 14 at 13:41 (year 2007)
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> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > How can I back-date a file to an older date that
> > reflects its original creation date rather than its
> > last modified date?
> >
> > I want to do this so the file dates will correctly identify
> > the dates the photos were originally taken rather than the
> > later dates that I modified, cropped, and resized them, etc.
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, JT Moree wrote
> jhead will do this. I wrote some wrapper scripts as part of picbook
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/picbook/) to do this kind of stuff.
> they call jhead and/or touch.
>
> http://picbook.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/picbook/picbook/FixImage.sh
> might be useful to you.
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