GAPI: Sorting results based on date - google-analytics-api

I am fetching results from Google Analytics web api. I am accessing results giving different dimensions like hour, day, week, yearMonth etc dynamically based on the time gap between start-date and end-date.
Here the problem I am facing is with sort-metric parameter. For dimension = day, sort-metric = date works fine but for other dimensions like week, month and year it sorts in ascending order based on the given dimension.
Say for months, I select start-date = june, 2013 and end-date = june, 2014, the results are sorted as jan, 2014;feb, 2014;mar, 2014;apr, 2014;may, 2014;june, 2013;june, 2014;july, 2013;july, 2014....etc
But the desired sort order should be june, 2013;july, 2013...dec, 2013;jan, 2014.....jun, 2014
I need correct sort-metric parameter values for above mentioned dimensions(hour, day, week, yearMonth).
Thanks in advance!

You can use an array in the sort parameter.
In this example you would have to use array('month', 'year')

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