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WLOPES_PHOTOGRAPHER
January 2, 2026
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CHANGE DATE IN BRIDGE.

  • January 2, 2026
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I ONLY NEED TO CHANGE THE DATE ON THE BRIDGE, PRESERVING THE TIME, HOW DO I DO IT?

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Erik Bloodaxe
Erik Bloodaxe
Legend
January 2, 2026

Do you mean you wish to change the date on which an image was captured? 

Go to Edit>Edit Capture Time

You can add or subtract multiples of 24 hours to move entire days or simply type in a new date in the dialogue box.

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WLOPES_PHOTOGRAPHERAuthor
January 3, 2026

Hi Eric, thanks for the response.
I have several photos, about 500, I realized they are the wrong year. In my rush I didn't realize that the year was wrong, the time is correct. So I just need to change the year, preserving the time. The way you suggest changes everything, I can change the date but the time remains the same as the first photo in the batch.
Making the switch one by one is time-consuming.

Erik Bloodaxe
Erik Bloodaxe
Legend
January 3, 2026

I have to agree that you are correct in your observations. The tool seems not adequately well designed to deal with what you want.

So what is the solution? Looks like you need something other than Bridge like Phil Harvey's Exiftool which can successfully manage tasks such as this. I don't know whether you are familiar with this tool but here is a link to the website from where it may be obtained. Plenty of instructional examples too.

https://exiftool.org/

Once the tool is installed you can proceed as follows:

AllDates is an exiftool shortcut that will edit the three major EXIF tags, DateTimeOriginal, DateTimeDigitized (called CreateDate by exiftool), and DateTime (called ModifyDate by exiftool).

If you require all files to have the year shifted by the same amount you can use these example commands:

exiftool "-AllDates+=12:0:0 0" /path/to/files

shifts year forward by 12 without changing the time

exiftool "-AllDates-=8:0:0 0" /path/to/files

shifts year back by 8 without changing the time

Hope this helps.

 

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