IPhotos has randomly changed dates on my photos

I am very organized in iPhoto, I've been using it for years. I have 15,000 photos in my iPhoto library and since last week I have noticed that it is randomly redating my some of my photos. Last week I browsed through my library from the earliest date (2003) without modifying anything on any photos... since then it has randomly redated some of those photos. I have no idea how or why this has happened... any info anyone can give me as to why this happened or how to correct it would be greatly appreciated!! I take extreme care to organize each and every photo that I upload, this little issue is driving me crazy!
Thanks in advance!
Sarah

I have had a similar thing happen to me. At some point over the last year (perhaps during an upgrade?), iPhoto changed the dates of some photos in my library. The interesting thing is the pattern of the changes. iPhoto appears to have randomly selected anywhere from 1-3 photos from each of my events and then changed the dates of those photos. The dates inserted by iPhoto start in April of 2011 and advance by one day for each altered photo. For example, the altered photo from my library's first event (photos from 2001) is now dated April 4, 2011. The two altered photos from my second event (also 2001) are now dated April 5 and April 6, 2011. The one altered photo from my third event (2002) is now dated April 7, 2011. The photo altered from my sixtieth event (2007) is now dated sometime in June, 2011. I think you see the pattern. The photo(s) changed in each event seem to be randomly selected, and in some events no dates have been changed at all. It is not the end of the world (I can go through each event and correct the dates of the changed photos) but it is a big hassle as I have hundreds of events. Does anyone have an explanation as to what might have happened here?

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