Thanks for this suggestion. I'll take a close look at Graphic Converter. Hopefully It'll be scriptable to make it easy to handle bulk date changes. John >> Whenever I get photos of my grandson from my son, the photos are >> all dated with the camera default date. He's never taken the time >> to set the date correctly. I'd like to change the dates included >> in the metadata in the jpegs from their camera so that when it's >> cataloged in iPhoto the picture dates are roughly correct. >> >> Can it be done? What OS X friendly software can you suggest? >> Thanks. >> John > > yep, graphic converter can do exactly that. it can even shift the > date and time, very useful when you go on holiday to the u.s. from > europe and forget to change the time on your camera! have a look, > it's a great piece of software.