FCP 6 - How to sort clips (photos) by Date/Time (only)?

Hello All;
I am trying to do something farily simple (I think) but it doesn't seem to be working.
Here's my situation - I am creating a video slide show in FCP consisting probably of about 250 photos from about four different sources but all taken over about 4 days. I imported all of them into a single bin of FCP. I simply want to order each of those photos by the DATE/TIME. If I right-click, I am only able to order by filename or size. However, it I right-click and select "view as list", I am able to reorder by date but it even though it does reorder by date, they are still sorted by filename so this isn't what I want.
Anyone know an easy way (preferably) that i can order a directory exclusively by date/time irrespective of the filename or any other item which I can then move into a FCP timeline ?
Thanks.
Tim

Get a copy of [File Sequencer|http://www.johnnarun.com/file_sequencer>.
Place your photos into a folder and set it to List View, sorted by creation date.
Start File Sequencer and determine a starting number, then point it at the folder of images.
You can then import the images into FCP in the right order. They will be sorted by their new name.
It's pretty much self-explanatory to use but you might want to do this on a small batch of copies of your images first, to get the hang of it.

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