Organising folders by dates in Finder (mac)

Hello,

Im trying to be organised on my mac. I have made multiple personal folders and each of them are labelled with a date (YYYY/MMM/DD).

The thing is, all the folders have dates that are determined by me and not by the computer due to the metadata being incorrect in certain files.

My problem is that the folders in the Mac's Finder are not showing in chronological order.

So say I have a folder with the year 2016 July 10 to the end of 2017 May 10.

2016 should appear at the top, from the earliest month and day in a timeline sequence all the way down to 2017.

In the finder as it shows now,

1st row will have 2016 and 2017: (2016 Dec 31), (2016 July 10), (2017 Jan 13.)

2016 July should come before 2016 Dec. 2017 Jan should be much further down the line. And also 2016 Jul 10 should be at the very top beginning as the Folder's date started in 2016 July 10.

2nd row will have 2016: (2016 Aug 9), (2016 Sep 24), (2016 Sep 25.)

that row is in the correct sequence.

3rd row will have 2016 and 2017: (2016 Jul 20), (2016 Oct 12), (2017 Apr 26)

This row is also correct in its sequence although 2016 Jul 20 should be at the very top as the date started in 2016 July.

But please note, In this case, 2017 files were not grouped together.

If I can't do that, is there a way of manually organising the folders so that I can have the dates in the order I want without mac defaulting to the way it was? I have tried the view option and sorting it by date added or modified etc but it does not work for me.

Thanks!

Claire.