den4b Forum

A script included below for the Pascal Script rule will read the exif date and apply it to the file modification date.

Be aware: The script will be executed on every Preview operation, as opposed to a Rename operation. This is just how renaming rules work. All successfully processed files will have their names prefixed with a plus sign, which may be useful for validation, but otherwise you can comment out this effect in the script.

var
  ExifDateStr: WideString;
  ExifDate: TDateTime;

const
  TempDateFormat = 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss';

begin
  ExifDateStr := CalculateMetaTagFormat(FilePath, 'Exif_Date', TempDateFormat);
  if Length(ExifDateStr) > 0 then
  begin
    ExifDate := ScanDateTime(TempDateFormat, ExifDateStr);
    if SetFileTimeModified(FilePath, ExifDate) then
      FileName := '+' + FileName
    else
      Error('Failed to set the modified date on file: ' + FilePath);
  end;
end.

Alternatively, it should be possible to achieve the same effect with these capable command line tools: ExifTool and Exiv2. There should be some good examples online.