sort by date

Hi all There is something that Apple discretely changed that doesn't seem to be an issue to anyone - except me, and its driving me nuts. Maybe someone out there can sprinkle some magic dust. Until relatively recently, when a Finder window was in icon view, you could sort the files by date...

I remember a long time ago, I could tell Safari to make a folder for every day of download. This disappeared a long time ago until now..! I was tired the pile up in the download folder and because I cant decide always, do I want to delete or move this download, I wanted them to be sorted by...