Dear Jim,
Thank you so much for a brilliant utility. Like a bunch of other users, I'd like to add my voice to the request for improved timestamping. This is an increasing need around the world. The basis for millions tearing their hair out on iPads and other iDevices is because Apple, in its wisdom, periodically changes the way photos are automatically sorted in the iDevice Photo app...which pretty much always means they are NOT in the order you want.
In iOS3, sorting was based on the file name (yay...BRU to the rescue!). In iOS4 they changed to Date Taken (boo). In iOS5 and later they changed to Date Modified (boo, hiss, toss rotten tomatoes). So, if you Photoshop several photos in a slide show, they then move to the end of the slide show rather than staying where they were. What was Apple thinking!?
Anyhow, as a result of this mess, there is an immense need around the world to bulk modify the Date Modified in a similar sequential way to File Name. I tried to do that in BRU through the Timestamp option, but couldn't get it to work. In its Date Modified section I entered an initial Fixed start time, and then a Delta of 1 minute, hoping it would sequentially date stamp the selected files in one-minute increments. It didn't: instead it applied the Fixed date-plus-one-Delta to all files, so they now all have the same Modified time. In that case, I don't think I understand what the Delta is for (none the wiser for reading the Help), since entering the Delta'd date/time initially just in the Fixed field would give the same result.
Can you please advise whether I am doing something wrong, or whether BRU needs a tweak to support this bulk sequential timestamp option that so many folks seem to be pleading for (as I see on the forums here)? Just to get the sorting job done before more cleverness is developed for BRU, I'd even settle for manually editing the Date Modified value in-line in the display list, like you can edit the file name! That would be easier than editing the Fixed value in the Timestamp options one by one to apply to each of 300+ photos in a single slide deck...
Thanks again.
Best
Neil