Exporting Created Date in iPhoto

I need to export photos from iPhoto and I need to preserve the metadata - particularly the date/time the photo was taken. If I right click on the photo in iPhoto and click "Get Info", it shows the proper created date/time so I know iPhoto has it.
However, when I export the photos, it has the created date set to today. If I drag the photos from iPhoto to a folder in Finder, it has the created date set to the last modified date.
How can I properly export photos with the created date/time preserved?

Susan Woodrum wrote:
This didn't work for me. I'm using iPhoto '11, with OS 10.7.5 Lion. When I export a photo from iPhoto to my desktop, then open it in Preview and go to the Inspector, the Created Date and the Modified Date are both today, not the date in Dec. 2008 when the photo was taken.
This is a pretty big issue. Why does this happen?
Probably you are looking at the file metadata in the inspector not the photo EXIF metadata as TD's example shows
LN

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Among several other posts about similar situations, I have found none that directly and simply resolve this issue.
My wife imported a bunch of photos into iPhoto directly, but I wanted them in a folder on the hard drive.
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