The Bulk Rename Utility is the greatest thing since sliced bread! I use it all the time, especially with files peeled from a number of cameras where the EXIF date taken is used to rename the file and preserve the number sequence.
I like to sort things in my file lists.
This means any dates have to be in YYYYMMDD format.
I often also get files that have either American format as
1: "July 8th 2012" or
2: "Jul 08 2012"
in their file name - no wonder America is so unloved in the rest of the world! April is not the first month of the year!
The first format frustrates me as the month lengths are not all the same, so I cannot just do a quick delete, shuffle, and add.
The second format involves a shuffle, but the month is still in alphabetical, not numeric format.
Is there an inbuilt function that will peel off the %b format in a file name and convert it into a %m? I hate having to perform twelve operations, once for each month name and number. This defeats the purpose of having the utility.
Should there be an "American to ISO format" converter option that automagically does this for us?
If it becomes an additional 'date' box on the utility, I would also like a configuration option to change the date and time format to convert to "YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SS" (with the dashes and periods) as that seems to be easier on my eye and still preserves the sort ability. Others may wish to select different delimiters for the date and time commensurate with their Windows preferences, and this should be configurable and stored between invocations.
If it is a PCRE string I need, can we have it built in so I don't have to remember it each time?
(Sorry if this has been asked before, but my search didn't seem to find it. I'll be suitably chastised if it is documented elsewhere in the user manual which I have also searched)