Improve navigation: revise View Story Map so that month-year can be searched

View Story Map is invaluable when navigating this website. Often I find myself wanting to search for recent posts. Currently dates are expressed in month-day-year format. If there were an option to display posts in year-month-day format or day-month-year format, then I could search for posts made in the current month. Currently I can only search for posts made in the current year.

The green highlighting, showing what I've read and not read is also helpful. But there are usually sections I don't want to read, and being able to figure out what was posted recently would help.

Judging from wiki, I would guess YMD would be best for English speakers. But DMY would be fine with me as well. I see that the current MDY format, while conventional in the US, isn't especially common worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country

 

I suspect there are other ways of implementing the same idea. There could be a toggle to highlight posts written within the past 30 days. Or a sort feature could be added. These seem intrusive, possibly confusing, and more challenging to code though. The approach above relies on the user being conversant with CTRL-F in the browser. I'm not sure how most users work with this website.