metadata - How can I incrementally date photos?

I have a collection of photos that have no date information. They have no Exif data, and the file modification dates are all identical. The only sequence is in the file name: image-0001.jpg, image-0002.jpg, etc.

Now I want to assign a date to these files (preferably in Exif) that are all 10 seconds apart. I'm not so interested in what exactly the base date and time will be, just that they all increment 10 seconds. So the first image will get 0:00:00, the second 0:00:10, the third 0:00:20, etc.

Is this possible with ExifTool, or other Windows applications? We're talking about several thousands of images, so doing this manually is out of the question ;-)

Answer

There's already a similar question on the ExifTool forums. It can be done using two sequential ExifTool commands. First, make sure all the date to the same

exiftool -datetimeoriginal="2015:02:22 00:00:00" DIR

And then increment the time on each

exiftool '-datetimeoriginal+<0:0:${filesequence}0' DIR