Photos in events are suddenly in random order

Suddenly, many of my events has their photos in what seems to be a random order. This is true for both my iPhone 4 and iPad 3. gen. The order in iPhoto on my Mac is as I have set it to be, by date.
What I have tried so far:
- Deleting the "iPod photo cache" folder, and resyncing all the pictures
This is not the first time the Photos app on my iOS devices acts weird. Ever since a couple of years ago all the thumbnails of the events has been set to the first photo of the event.
Any suggestions?

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