Keeping creation date when exporting to jpeg

Another idea: I export using a file naming template which prefixes the shooting date in standard ISO format (so it always sorts chronologically): "YYYY-MM-DD [original filename]". It is easy to sort by filename in Finder AFAIK. In any photo aware viewer it is likely to be the photo metadata rather than filename that is used, but when the above naming template is used the file browser amounts to the same thing, given that the original filename's incrementing image number will put the photos into the same sequence within that day.

I'm running the latest MacOS (Ventura). I wanted to export files and have the create & modify date the date the photos were taken. I ended up using the LRC function in export of "Post-Processing" and chose a Bash script that I wrote that uses the exiftool command line tool. This is a little technical and therefore won't be the answer for everyone. For the curious here goes the quick steps and a okay version of the script.

#1. Install exiftool in some way (dmg install file from exiftool.org or brew install exiftool).  

#2. Create the bash script below in /usr/local/bin and make sure it's executable (chmod u+x <filename>) and /usr/local/bin is in your path or added by .bashrc.

#3 When exporting in LRC scroll all the way to the bottom of the export settings popup and under "Post-Processing" choose "Open in Other Application", select your script
#4 Export and see if it works

#!/bin/bash

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#get env for exiftool
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
  source ~/.bashrc
fi

i=1;
for filename in "$@"
  do
  #get capture date
  CREATE_DATE_RAW=`exiftool -T -DateTimeOriginal "$filename"`
  #format the time for touch CCCCMMDDHHMM.SS (brut force use of sed, you can do better)
  CREATE_DATE=`echo $CREATE_DATE_RAW | sed 's/://' | sed 's/://' | sed 's/://' | sed 's/ //' | sed 's/:/./'`
  touch -t $CREATE_DATE "$filename"
  i=$((i + 1));
done

The creation date you are looking at is the "FILE" creation date not the date stored in the EXIF. If you took a bunch of images on 8/26/2016 and you didn't copy them to your computers hard drive until 8/31/2016 the creation date would be 8/31/2016 not the date it was shot. That is the date the image file was created on the hard drive of your computer. The Capture time is completely different than the computer hard drive creation date.

There should be an option in Finder to show the Capture date, Time. You really shouldn't be changing the File Creation date to the image capture date. 2 totally different things.