For anyone who needs to restore the original EXIF dates and times without restoring from backup, the following command should do it.
exiftool -r "-CreateDate>DateTimeOriginal" *.jpg
(-r option for recursing into lower directories)
Taken from this comment at Gnome Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340903#c19
For anyone who needs to restore the original EXIF dates and times without restoring from backup, the following command should do it.
exiftool -r "-CreateDate> DateTimeOrigina l" *.jpg
(-r option for recursing into lower directories)
Taken from this comment at Gnome Bugzilla: https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 340903# c19