Table column Sorting doesnt detect date text

We LOVE the table sort feature. However we thought it would handle dates more intuitively.

We have some date's in a table column (notice we use DD/MM/YYYY format) and when sorted in any way it fails to understand the dates. The current sorting looks at the top of the text and sorts by it.

We're doing a workaroud by adopting the date format YYYY-MM-DD to ensure it works but it breaks our standard date format