Additionally, I add the month text (mmm) as well to the date, which makes it easy for me to quickly recognize the month, otherwise I mostly have to count :(
So like, 2016-09(Sep)-19
That way, the sorting still works, and I get to see 3 letter month abbreviations as well.
I have the exact opposite: if I see a date with the name of a month I mentally convert it to the month number first.
You could filter by folder and display by date, or ignore folders and filter by date. And it had an easy UI for filtering by tags (that were pulled from photo metadata, not stored in an internal database).
(I suppose I bring it up because it worked well enough to make manually fiddling with sorting photos mostly uninteresting)
I've known the month numbers since early childhood. Dates were often read as "the twentieth of the ninth, [twenty] sixteen", especially if they were being written down: 20/09/2016.
Though now I see it can't make sense if read in the American order.
