Incorrect EXIF date

Last night, I closed Aperture and went to bed. Everything was fine. This morning, I woke up and saw that a picture had gotten out of order when sorting by date.
http://www.peejstudio.com/temp/aperture.jpg
As you can see from the screenshot, magically, Aperture has decided a new EXIF date for my picture. Why?

Hi Lee Jay, thanks for the quick reply.
So it is just the display of dates that is wrong, it hasn't actually modified the EXIF data in my RAW file?

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Possibly, but another thing to try:
Select all the photos in an Event. Flag Them. Then go 'Create Event from Flagged Photos'
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