regardless of the month, I think what matters first is to know what day of the month you are in
You're telling me that if you have a list of scheduled dates in the near future to meet with clients/patients/whatever, you first want them sorted by day, and then month?
So this list is the order you want to see these in?
- 4/5/25
- 8/7/25
- 15/6/25
- 16/5/25
- 23/6/25
Doesn't it make way more sense to see them sorted by month first, then day, so that they're actually in chronological order.
- 5/4/25
- 5/16/25
- 6/15/25
- 6/23/25
- 7/8/25
The only way you could defend the former listing is if you're also arguing that it makes sense to sort the list by the middle column, and hopefully we all agree that is just absurd. We don't alphabetize people by their middle names. You don't look up a word in the dictionary starting with the letter in the middle.
I jest, but I think this illustrates a real-life, commonplace example of when it makes sense. I agree that MM/DD/YYYY is not in order of magnitude, but I do believe it's in order of most significance to least significance given the timescales we are typically dealing with.