Creation Date Of A Photo

Hello all,

I have a slight problem/annoyance with Gnome/Nautlilus.

We have a huge collection of photo's of our son coming in from relatives. We got them mostly from USB sticks. We also have repository if you will of folders divided in months. Each month holds photo's of that month of our son. Now we want to place the photo's we got from relatives in these folders. But Nautilus and the file properties only show the modify and access date. Of course I want the creation date.

I can get the creation date from accessing the metadata of the photo with Gimp or F-Spot. But to do this by hand for each picture is insane. There is no column for it in Nautilus. Windows and Mac do show this information by default so I guess the same will be posible with Linux? Right?

Can I still get a quick overview of these dates and where can I dump a feature request for Nautilus?

Isn't View>Arrange by>Month in F-Spot of any use in this case? Doesn't it create a folder "Photo" in you "Home" diretcory with everything arranged by month?

Does F-Spot base that on the metadata of the creation date? If so, can F-Spot work over a share? Cause I have a SUSE 10 server that holds these photo's. It has some backup facilities so that's why we don't keep it on our local pc's.

Does F-Spot base that on the metadata of the creation date?
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It's certainly not the modify or access date.