Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-265341-20140828172133/@comment-3361105-20140902130834

We already group comics together that came out in the same month. Depending on where you're looking, we don't sort alphabetically - we sort by title and then issue number.

Grouping APPEARANCES by an arbitrary made up date that isn't accurate means that 50 or so issues per month for every year that we didn't use the Day field (which is a new thing) are erroneously grouped to the same day, which means that there is would be no distinction between an appearance in Batman in January 1978 and an appearance in Detective Comics in January 1978, because they'd both have happened on the same made up day. That's fine and good if you don't care to have them distinguished to that degree, but if you don't care to have them distinguished to that degree, then I don't care to do it - sorting chronologically can't be made optional. It would replace the current method, and nobody would be able to change that sorting except an administrator. And if it's not all the way, I don't want to bother with it.