Reorganize existing photos by date

I have CS6 Bridge, and when I import from camera I can choose to group them by date. However, I have a lot of old photos on disk organized differently - is it possible to reorganize them the same way by date? Or are you guys aware of a good Windows tool to group photos by their date?
Edit: just found that Picasa can import from a folder (not just camera) and organize by date. Still, would love to hear a way to do it through Bridge.

I'll watch this thread and log a feature request if it turns out Bridge doesn't have that capability
I agree that it would be useful to have the possibility to also import from HD but meanwhile you do have plenty of options to reach what you need. You only need to read a bit about Bridge, use the view items from subfolder to have all the files in the content window (depending on size and amount this takes time and eats resources and RAM) but before you start experimenting you should make a proper back up of the existing files.
Another option to sort on date would be batch renaming:
Select all the files in the content window and choose menu tools/ batch rename. Inhere select the option to choose for the first field: date and time / date created / yyyymmdd and the next field current file name and check the result for first file at the bottom of the rename window under preview.
You should end up with the creation date in front of the current filename and while using yyyymmdd you have a natural sort order for the files.
If you are happy hit OK and wait a while for the renaming to be saved to the files. Now hit sort by filename.
Personally I have my image files stored in folder per year and month, the day in front does the rest for natural sort order.

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