I emphasize on the great usefulness of storing the DateTime of when the photo was taken in the DateTimeOriginal field of the EXIF Metadata of the file.
+ All photography software (editing, archiving) rely on this info to order pictures chronologically, otherwise they have to rely on file creation time (does not goes well with copies, tranfers..)
+ Stays there when the file is renamed/copied/modified
  • "Hidden" metadata that sticks to the image, but so is Author and World
Thank you