alt Hacker News> If I'm writing a document for human consumption then why would I expect the dates to be sortable by a naive string sorting algorithm?
If you're naming a document for human consumption, having the files sorted by date easily without relying on modification date (which is changed by fixing a typo/etc...) is pretty neat
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globular-toast • last Wednesday at 5:55 AM
So you can't sort by name, author etc? One sort key? What year is it?!
This is exactly it - file name is easy to control and sort on; creates date and modified date are (for most users) random and uncontrolled.