diff --git a/WordPress/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/datasets/ReaderPostTable.java b/WordPress/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/datasets/ReaderPostTable.java
index 4d2ab0fab2bb..390d6796ced8 100644
--- a/WordPress/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/datasets/ReaderPostTable.java
+++ b/WordPress/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/datasets/ReaderPostTable.java
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ public static ReaderPostList getPostsInFeed(long feedId, int maxPosts, boolean e
         String columns = (excludeTextColumn ? COLUMN_NAMES_NO_TEXT : "*");
         String sql =
                 "SELECT " + columns + " FROM tbl_posts WHERE feed_id=? AND tag_name='' AND tag_type=0"
-                + " ORDER BY date_published DESC";
+                + " ORDER BY datetime(date_published) DESC";
 
         if (maxPosts > 0) {
             sql += " LIMIT " + maxPosts;