On Friday I posted a small set of free AppleScripts for manipulating dates in iPhoto: Joe’s iPhoto AppleScripts. These scripts provide workaround solutions to several outstanding iPhoto issues

Foremost, iPhoto Time Shifter allows batch shifting of dates in iPhoto 4 and 5. This allows for time zone corrections, multi-camera synchronization and other specific adjustments of iPhoto dates. iPhoto’s dates are normally read-only, these work around that using Apple’s GUI Scripting.

Also included are iPhoto Date Reset and Reveal in Finder. Date Reset can be used to fix the iPhoto 5 movie import bug where movies are assigned the date of import instead of their actual creation date. Reveal in Finder does exactly what it says, with the additional choice of revealing the true original or the currently active file with applied changes.

There’s much more detail on the Joe’s iPhoto AppleScripts page. The scripts are free, unlocked and annotated, I’ve also documented the AppleScript subroutines used in the scripts on the Scripting Dates in iPhoto page.

I tested them quite a bit, but I’m calling them a beta until I get more outside feedback.