The thing is, lexigraphical sorting is something that can be easily parsed, parse the date and sort it how you want. The standard was for written and radio com

The thing is, lexigraphical sorting is something that can be easily parsed, parse the date and sort it how you want. The standard was for written and radio communication to be unambiguous. If you're writing software, believe me you want a format like 13FEB2025 over anything except maybe unix timestamp in UTC.