# Get Date and Time From Video Filename (HELP)
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/get-date-and-time-from-video-filename-help/65246
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 10, 2024, 8:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/get-date-and-time-from-video-filename-help/65246 "2024-07-10T08:15:05Z")
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### Author:  [@BabaDubu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BabaDubu)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2024, 8:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/get-date-and-time-from-video-filename-help/65246/1 "2024-07-10T08:15:05Z")
I have a large number of videos (MP4) recorded from my cellphone that are named in the format VID\_20230919\_135105.mp4
The name contains the date (20230919) which is the 19th of September 2023 in this case and the time the video was recorded (135105) which is 1:51:05 pm in this case. I am new to both mp3tag and regex but i have the vague idea that i could extract this information from the filename and save them into YEAR and RELEASETIME tags via regex.
Please save me from having to do this manually for almost 600 files!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2024, 8:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/get-date-and-time-from-video-filename-help/65246/2 "2024-07-10T08:38:19Z")
> [@BabaDubu](#):
>
> VID\_20230919\_135105
Create an action of the type "Format value" or use Convert\>Tag-Tag for RELEASETIME
Format string: `$regexp(%_filename%,VID_(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)_(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d),$1-$2-$3T$4:$5:$6)`
To fill YEAR use the same function this time for YEAR with
Format string: `$num(%releasetime%,4)`
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2024, 8:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/get-date-and-time-from-video-filename-help/65246/3 "2024-07-10T08:53:19Z")
From the official [ID3 documentation](https://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure) about the timestamp format,
Section "4. ID3v2 frame overview":
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To be searchable in this forum:
> The timestamp fields are based on a subset of [ISO 8601](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601). When being as precise as possible the format of a time string is
> `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss`
> (year, "-", month, "-", day, "T", hour (out of 24), ":", minutes, ":", seconds), but the precision may be reduced by removing as many time indicators as wanted.
> Hence valid timestamps are
> `yyyy`
> `yyyy-MM`
> `yyyy-MM-dd`
> `yyyy-MM-ddTHH`
> `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm`
> and
> `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss`
> All time stamps are UTC. For durations, use the slash character as described in 8601, and for multiple non-contiguous dates, use multiple strings, if allowed by the frame definition.
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### Author:  [@BabaDubu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BabaDubu)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2024, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/get-date-and-time-from-video-filename-help/65246/4 "2024-07-10T09:49:11Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> `$regexp(%_filename%,VID_(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)_(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d),$1-$2-$3T$4:$5:$6)`
Thanks this is exactly what I needed
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2024, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/get-date-and-time-from-video-filename-help/65246/5 "2024-08-09T09:49:14Z")
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