Aperture randomly messing up my 'Date' metadata! Why?

I've just come back form Disney World.
Now, for this example let me just explain what's happening with only my Nikon D300 photo's.
I have 476 photo's and set them all to have a timezone of GMT-5 to show the correct time/date.
Fine.
Now, if I click out of Aperture then back into it, Aperture does some weird update flicker thing and about 5 photo's in my viewing grid now have 6 hours added onto their EXIF Date time!!
eh?!
Also, if I double-click a photo to view it alone, sometimes Aperture adds 6 hours onto that photo too!
I've spent  the last two days sorting the time zones and dates of my photo's from 3 different camera's, 2 iPhone 4's, an iPhone 5 and an iPad... Around 2000 photo's!!
I've spent around 20 hours sat in front of my computer, sorting out the time zones and date/time of every photo so that they are all in order!
Now Aperture is randomly messing it all up!!!!
Arggggggg!!!!
What
Is
Going
On
ShalI ditch Aperture for Lightroom?
I know Apple have neglected their software for some time now but this is absolutely ridiculous... and preposterous!!
Things have certainly sunk very low indeed when you can't trust a piece of professional software with the most basic of tasks as keeping your essential metadata free from random corruption.
Pathetic.

We are just users here.  Spare us your frustration, bolded statements, multiple exclamation points, emphatic layout, insults, daft talk, and idle threats.  _We provide useful information for free_.  Respect that.
If you wish to comment to Apple regarding Aperture, you must use the only Apple-approved conduit.  This is available from within Aperture, at "Aperture ▹ Provide Aperture Feedback".
If you specify how you prepared your cameras (or not) for your trip, how you changed them while traveling, what changes you specified during import, what changes you've made since import, and how the results differ from what you expect, I'm sure we can help you trouble-shoot your problem.  Time-zone issues _are_ frustrating to deal with -- but they are also, usually, solvable.

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