vansig wrote:

Our shots are numbered by date first, and then the shot number for that day. Today’s first shot would be 08311101 (month, day, year, shot #).

there is no good reason not to switch every date code to year-month-day, which is reasonable since computer operating systems automatically sort file names into lexicographic order.

the practice of ordering things month-day-year should be subjected to public ridicule.

Agree! But it’s hard. Y-M-D was adopted as the ANSI standard decades ago, and is still ignored. I use it wherever I can, however.
I still twitch when I remember my coding days having to pluck strings apart, reformat from text to numeric, resequence, sort, etc.