> Lexical sort ordering without parsing the date string is a great property.
Why? Why is the date even a string in the first place? It ought to be internally represented as 3 numbers. Or a Unix timestamp. Convert it to months, days, and/or years as appropriate right before printing.
Never use unix time stamp as date. You don’t know time zone, you need to calculate leap years (both days and seconds), summer time etc such a “date” would immediately morph into useless random number
