How to order iphoto albums by date?

I have resorted my Iphoto albums over and over. They STILL rearrange themselves. What am I doing wrong? Heck.

iPhoto 1.0 did that automatically until iphoto 4 or so... it even sorted photos in dated folderes using exif data. For whatever reason a "brilliant" person in apple decided  to date the folders with the importing date, some absolutely useless. And also decided to take out the calendar feature and created the also useless events concept, which is ok for a couple of mum and dad pictures, but useless if you have thousands of pictures and hundreds of events and projects.
Aperture mimics iPhoto and missed this too for the sake of compatibility. Flickr has way better sorting capabilities in that respect than Aperture & iPhoto. In flickr you have a calendar where you see all pictures by date...  something absolutely ease to implement in both Aperture and iPhote but Apple decided not to.
Halfway Solution: Smart Folders and show date under every picture. That way if you create a Smart Folder 2012 (11) NOV: inside you will see all pictures of that month and you can spot fast the pictures shot on Nov the 10th.
This is the way a name folders and pictures:
Year (Month Number)  Month's Name 3 first letters - Day of the Week 3 first letters - HourMinuteSecond - Event Name or Activity - City - Country
2012 (11) Nov Sun 13h23m34s - 11 Apostoles - Great Ocean Road - Victoria - Australia
I've being naming my pics this way for the last 10 years and I spot instantely where I have take every picture just reading the name. You can use IPTC and Aperture or other rename app.
I name folders like this:
Year (Month Number)  Month's Name 3 first letters - Event or Activity o Proyect
2012 (11) Nov - Event or Activity o Proyect
Using Month Number sorted folders and pictures by date.

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