How can I use "date modified" from metadata to date iphoto events?

I am very frustrated trying to move photos from windows to iMac.  I have a number of photos, all of them have some metadata with date created and date modified.  This worked well in Picasa in Windows and kept everything in order.  Now it seems iphoto will not read date modified or assigns date created (if there is no date in the metadata) as the date everything was switched over.  I looked over some of the wrongly organized photos (there are thousands) and realized that under the old sustem, Picasa in windows must have used either date created or date modified, which ever came earlier or perhaps whichever was available.  In iphoto, it doesn't read "date modified" or does this crazy thing where even if the modification date is before the creation date, puts all photos in the order or when they were brought over from windows.  I have a lot of photos dated September 18 -- thousands.
Is there any way to get either iphoto or some other program (I'm not terribly impressed by iphoto) that will properly organize the photos in an imac environment. In other words, I want a program to look at (1) creation date or (2) modification date (which-ever is earlier).
Even Picasa is now confused (in the mac envirnoment). 
Thanks,
Mark

No, as this is file metadata not photo metadata.
You can adjust the date and time using the Photos -> Adjust Date and Time or even the Photos -> Batch Change command.
Regards
TD

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