sort=release_date ?

Hey everyone, I am new here but loving this API.  I am trying to get a list of platforms from the api.  I would assume ' sort=release_date' should do the trick but the output seems to be totally random in its order.   Does anyone have any advice?

Legend has it that some users have figured out how to change the sorting of results, but I have never succeeded in doing so.

The only way I’ve been able to do it, with the Search resource, is to get all of the results and sort the final list on my end by original_release_date.