PSP X5: EXIF date encoding / HDR composition

[noluck]

as PSP's HDR merge function does not set the EXIF creation date of combined pictures, I need to set this afterwards to ensure geotagging works right and the combined photos are shown in the correct sequence within other pictures (e.g. within the 'share my trip' feature or photo services) - I have three problems with this:

• even to do this manually is not possible, as the "adjust date created" button in the "Current Image Information" dialogue is grayed out
• doing so by script does not work also (the field is simply not set on files, which don't already have such a field)
• even to script this date within files, which do already have the field, is hard to do, as PSP obviously uses a strange encoding in its function

e.g. a recorded script uses the following string to set the original + digitized dates to 2010-01-01 10:00:00

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    # ImageInfo
    App.Do( Environment, 'ImageInfo', {
            [...]
            'ExifDateTimeDigitized': u'\u3032\u3031\u303A\u3A31\u3130\u3120\u3A30\u3030\u303A0\u9098'\
                u'\u0AAE\u0001', 
            'GeneralSettings': {
                'ExecutionMode': App.Constants.ExecutionMode.Silent, 
                'AutoActionMode': App.Constants.AutoActionMode.Match, 
                'Version': ((15,0,0),1)
                }
            })

for 1987-06-15 01:23:45 it is

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'ExifDateTimeDigitized': u'\u3931\u3738\u303A\u3A36\u3531\u3020\u3A31\u3332\u343A5\uCF88'\
                u'\u0AB1', 

so this seems to be kind of a 'little endian' form put into psedo unicode - but what about the additional data at the end...?!

any help or hints appreciated - TIA!