View Photo Dates on Import

Welcome to the forum. You need to choose to organize "by date" in the destination panel and in the center panel, you need to choose "Destination Folders" in the secondary menu (All Photos—New Photos—Destination Folders)

I don't believe that answers my question.
I want to see the date the photos were taken so I can select only those I want to group together.

Scenario:
I have 200 photos taken over the past few months for a number of different events.

I want to select only the photos taken in January 2017 that are random photos.
I rename them to YYYY-MM-DD_Misc_001 which the 001 increments.
I also put them a folder titled 2017-01 Misc

Then I select the February photos, etc.

I have been doing this ever since I started using Lightroom.
However, I haven't used it since January and now I can't see the date a photo was taken to only select those I want in January.

It's not clear if I turned something off so LR doesn't show the date or an update to Lightroom hides that information.

Thanks,
Brett

EDIT: To clarify, I want to see this info in the Import process.

The Method that I described is the only method to see the images sorted by date shot BEFORE they are imported. Generally speaking, Organizing your images is something that an app like LR is designed to do AFTER import. I suggest that you Import them all. This goes fairly quickly. Then you can take the time to group them into what ever groups that suits your fancy. These groups are called Collections and organizing images has nothing to do with where an image resides in the file system.

You can see the capture date in the Import panel by hovering your mouse over a thumbnail and waiting for the tool-tip pop-up to appear, which contains the capture date and time.

But it would be far easier to let LR do that organising for you, in your example you can have LR automatically create a 2017-01 folder and put all the January captures in that folder. No need to create the folder manually, or hunt around the Import panel looking for the first and last January images, no need to repeat the process for the February and March captures either....that can all be done in one simple import. The only thing you would need to do is rename the folders (in Lightroom) after import to add your descriptor to the date if needed.

Thanks for the suggestions.
The hovering over photo for tool tips appearing is how I was doing it before.
For some reason it wasn't popping up so I thought I may have turned something off but could not find the toggle.
But it is working now and it is what I wanted.
I may not be doing it in the most optimum way, but it is how I have been organizing my library and I don't want to change now.

I rename photos on import to yyyy-mm-dd_eventname_seq#
I have a custom rename and I only need to type in the eventname.

I put them in a folder yyyy-mm-dd EventName
I need to type the entire folder name for each import. But that's ok.

I just got back from a week long golf trip where we played a different course each day.(Why my post is 10 days later)
I took 20-30 photos each day.
When I import, I uncheck all, select the first photo for that day, hover to find the last photo, shift click to select all for that day.
Click the check box to check selected photos. Type course name in custom field and type folder name. Import
Rinse and repeat. Took less than 5 minutes.
Now all the photos are renmaed with date and course so when I send them to the others, they know from the file name the basic information.

I started doing it this way years ago in the early days of iphoto.
I used a program on the Mac called exifrename to import the photos to folders and rename the photos.
Then I could import the folder into iphoto and each folder created an album.
I figured if something happened to iphoto, I would at least have the originals organized.

Again, thanks for your suggestions and tips.

Brett