Dates of images in PSP 7.04

I just took some pictures of our yard under 4' of snow, yesterday there was 
only 3'. But for some reason when I renamed them yesterday's photos have 
today's date.  Is there any way short of changing the date in WinXP of 
changing the incorrect date?

Thanks for help on this trivial matter,
Don

Don Nickell <donnickell@roadrunner.com> wrote in
news:479fadbb$1_1@cnews: 

> 
> I just took some pictures of our yard under 4' of snow, yesterday
> there was only 3'. But for some reason when I renamed them yesterday's
> photos have today's date.  Is there any way short of changing the date
> in WinXP of changing the incorrect date?
> 
> Thanks for help on this trivial matter,
> Don

Is it in Windows Explorer that you're seeing the date change, or somewhere 
else? 

Did you rename the images by opening them and saving them under the new 
names, or did you do it through Windows Explorer or a file renamer?    If 
the former, then you modified the image and Windows will show the last date 
modified (and you shouldn't open images just to change the name because re-
saving them, especialy as jpgs, reduces the quality of the image).  If the 
latter then you shouldn't see a date change in Explorer.

Regards,

JoeB  

Don Nickell wrote:
> I just took some pictures of our yard under 4' of snow,
> yesterday there was only 3'. But for some reason when I
> renamed them yesterday's photos have today's date.  Is there
> any way short of changing the date in WinXP of changing the
> incorrect date?

There are dozens--nay, hundreds--of utilities for changing the date 
of a file, many of them free. A Google search for "windows change 
file date" without the quotation marks gets them.
-- 
Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com 

Fred Hiltz wrote:
> Don Nickell wrote:
>> I just took some pictures of our yard under 4' of snow,
>> yesterday there was only 3'. But for some reason when I
>> renamed them yesterday's photos have today's date.  Is there
>> any way short of changing the date in WinXP of changing the
>> incorrect date?
> 
> There are dozens--nay, hundreds--of utilities for changing the date 
> of a file, many of them free. A Google search for "windows change 
> file date" without the quotation marks gets them.

Thanks guys I'll take both suggestions and work them into my routines. :-)

Fred Hiltz wrote:
> Don Nickell wrote:
>> I just took some pictures of our yard under 4' of snow,
>> yesterday there was only 3'. But for some reason when I
>> renamed them yesterday's photos have today's date.  Is there
>> any way short of changing the date in WinXP of changing the
>> incorrect date?
> 
> There are dozens--nay, hundreds--of utilities for changing the date 
> of a file, many of them free. A Google search for "windows change 
> file date" without the quotation marks gets them.

Just wanted to let folks know I just downloaded Attribute Magic from 
http://www.programurl.com/attributemagic-free-.htm . It is touted to:
"... view and change file attributes: creation date, last access date and 
modify date. Drag&drop supported."

Thanks again for your help...