For some apps, that would make sense, but most use of dates is scoped within this week, this month, then this year. If you look at your calendar, you are mostl

For some apps, that would make sense, but most use of dates is scoped within this week, this month, then this year. If you look at your calendar, you are mostly concerned with upcoming events and not next year's. So the Aug 1, 2009 date gets the important information up first, or possibly 1 Aug 2009.