Reported Misreading Date and Time

[Waechtlerj]

Infranview is misreading the date and time of photos.
SOMETIMES the date is correct, sometimes it is off by as much as 3 days (usually ahead of actual date).
The time is completely misread.

I have Vista with all patches, Irfanview 4.3.
This was also the case in previous version of Infranview.
This was NOT the case some time ago with earlier versions.
I first noticed this problem early in July 2011.

This affects BATCH RENAMES that use the date and/or time, necessitating many corrections.

[Waechtlerj]

Irfanview is reading DATE MODIFIED - but only for new photos since July 2011
???

[Waechtlerj]

I now see that Date Modified is read for older photos too - but (most of) my older photos have same date for Date Taken & Date Modified. I copied recent photos to disk with USB cable to camera. Older photos were copied directly from the chip in computer slot.

Shouldn't Irfanview use Date Created though????
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FOUND THIS Setting to use Date Created in Batch Rename: $E36867(%Y-%m-%d).$F