Add EXIF timestamps to photos

My car got sideswiped yesterday. Worst, the driver neither had insurance nor a license. We had to go through the hassle of filing a report with the police, complete with photo evidence of the accident.

I only had my phone with me, which unfortunately isn't very feature rich (it's an old Android phone flashed with CM7, but I digress...), so there wasn't any timestamp on the photos.

ImageMagick to the rescue! ImageMagick can extract basic EXIF data from images, as well as annotate them on the fly. I used the following script:

So it went from this:

to this:

Ugh! That scratch would have to wait.

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