Importing iMovie events - wrong dates

Question

I am new to FCPX.  I imported my iMovie event library (File/Import/iMovie Event Library).  Worked fine, but the date is wrong: FCPX shows and uses for file organisation the date of the file import, not the dates of the file creation/image capture. 
This way, for archiving/editing, having iMovie events in FCPX is useless.  I have 1.4 TB of iMovie footage hanging there under one date (today). 
Is there a configuration I missed?  Many thanks.  

Answer 1

I have had good luck importing my iMovie event library.
The first time I tried it, FCPX appeared to hang, so I force quit.
The second time, I decided to let FCPX finish and let it run overnight.
The result was that the dates were preserved. After poking around a bit, I found that FCP did not duplicate the event clips. Rather, it made a hard link so that the same clip is used in both iMovie and FCPX.  But FCPX has to generate its own thumbnails and analysis files and this takes time. It also took time for the hard links to be put in place.
I did not have to do anything special, except wait for it to finish.
I have about 5TB available to both apps.
Also, I was on 10.0.3 when I did this so I haven't tried it on 10.0.7.
I should also add that most of my dates were set by the camera, or by me outside the program. If you have added dates using iMovies date and time feature, I do not think those are preserved.
When I imported old VHS tapes (for example) to iMovie, I would name them as clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss.ext where hh is hours in 24 hour time and ext is the current extension (e.g. .dv or .mov). FCP reads these dates, as does iMovie.