Changing date and time on photos

I changed the date and time of some of my photos in iPhoto, and I kept the original date/time for others. When I merged the two in iPhoto, they fell chronologically, which is what I wanted. But when I created a generic file on my desktop and moved the files from my iPhoto to this folder, the photos got mixed up.
How can I sort these photos--that are now out of iPhoto--by the date that I gave them in iPhoto? Do these changes made in iPhoto not permanently stay with each picture?

avarda
Actually you can't.
It's quite possible to have a photo taken on January 1 2000 in a file created yesterday.
When iPhoto sorts the photos on date and time it is reading the Exif data in the file about the Photo.
When the Finder sorts on date and time it's reading the Date Created and Modified of the file. The Finder does not know about Exif data.
Yes the Exif data (and the changes you made) travel with the Photo, but that's only of use in applications that know about Exif data - which is just about every photo application on the Planet - but the Finder is not a Photo app.
To do what you want: Now that you have the photos arranged in iPhoto, select them and go File -> Export: Kind: jpeg and look at the naming options in the dialogue box: Explore Fiename -> Sequential. Then, in the Finder, sort on Filename.
Regards
TD

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