Both 7-14-1789 and 14-07-1789 are suboptimal. Sorting is trivial with 1789/07/14, so this is my preferred format. Rather than indulge in sort key gymnastics o

Both 7-14-1789 and 14-07-1789 are suboptimal. Sorting is trivial with 1789/07/14, so this is my preferred format. Rather than indulge in sort key gymnastics on a text file, I would rearrange prior to sort.