IPhoto 11 Event Date Question

I have a question about iPhoto 11 events. My camera was set to the wrong date for part of an event. I went in and did a batch change of the time and date of the affected photos. However, the date range beneath the title of the event still has the old erroneous date, and the event gets sorted by this date range. Is there a way to go in and change that date range under the title of the event? I go to the event and click on info, and the event shows the correct date range for the pics, but it is not changing the date range under the title. Thanks for any help in advance.

Thank you - I had the same problem and found your helpful answer. However, this is actually a work around to a bug in iPhoto - it's not how the Apple Support pages say it works and common sense says that if you change all the dates in an event it should sort to the right place without being re-created. Can you help me with one more thing - how do I bring this to Apple's attention so that they fix it in a future release?
Thanks again for the help.

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