Migrating photos from PC to MacBook - Does metadata come too?

I have approximately 12,000 photos on a PC that I want to transfer to my MacBook Pro. My concern primarily involves the "date taken" info for each photo. Will that data transfer from PC to Mac, allowing me to organize my photos by date without having to manually date each photo?

Assuming the date taken metadata is in the Exif metadata of the file there will be no problem.
But why not import 10 to see?
Regards
TD

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