I have noticed this as well, but is it possible to patch this behavior? I have several projects that have similar names (AB12CD34EF56, AB12CD35EF56, AB22CD34EF56, etc) and was used to using the date to sort out which was which.
Unfortuneatly I have no control over what the projects are named (shared source files and project folders), so I am currently back to using a pen and legal pad to keep track of which project I am currently working on, and we thought we were progressing ;-)