Hugin

It happens very often that your "shooting" date is days or weeks earlier
than your "hugin pano creation" date. iPhoto on OSX (but also many other
image gallery programs on Linux and Windows) import /sort/ show their
images based on file date. If you want to keep your source images and your
pano together, it would be great if you could automatically timestamp your
pano file date/time to the internal exif date/time (if available).

This can be easily achieved using "ExifTool" (already used by Hugin) and
"touch" (available on every MacOSX, *nix and *BSD system. For windows one
could use use windows own "touch" (not standard and NOT free, but comes
with the toolkits) or one could package (cygwin) "touch", which is GPLed
Open Source.

I can't program it in C/C++, but I did program it in applescript for my own
ImageFuser application (set enfused image file date/time to internal exif
date/time).
It's really simple and I can easily explain the program flow and structure
of my functions to a C/C++ programmer.
This could than become a checkbox on the "stitcher" panel: "Set panorama
file date to exif date". I think it would complicate the "assistant" panel
too much.

Just contact me and we can work it out.