Ordering/Checking Posts & Outputting Challenge

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Pulling posts from child sites on the front page of the multisite Network page. I’ve accomplished everything I want, (I went this route because I each post needed its own image and more features may be added), but I can’t think of a quick way to order these posts by date.

Obviously, I could get the date of each, then assign them a integer based on that date, and echo them in an ordered fashion. But, I was hoping someone could think of a prettier and faster way to code this out . . .