Sorting distinct dates by year and month respectively

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to put some filtering feature in my application that sorts
some rows by year and then by month.

This is the initial result of running a query on the table to get the
unique dates:
gsin=> SELECT DISTINCT article_pubdate FROM articles ORDER BY
article_pubdate DESC;
article_pubdate
-----------------
2006-06-06
2006-06-05
2006-06-04
2006-06-02
2006-06-01

Now, I'd like to get only the year and month parts but I want them
ordered by year and then by month in ascending order. I'm using the
query below, but it doesn't order the results the way I want it.

gsin=> SELECT DISTINCT date_part('year', article_pubdate),
date_part('month', article_pubdate) FROM articles GROUP BY
date_part('year', article_pubdate), date_part('month',
article_pubdate) ORDER BY date_part('year', article_pubdate),
date_part('month', article_pubdate) DESC;
date_part | date_part
-----------+-----------
2002 | 5
2005 | 12
2005 | 11
2005 | 10
2005 | 9
2005 | 8
2005 | 7
2005 | 6
2005 | 5
2005 | 4
2006 | 6
2006 | 5
2006 | 4
2006 | 3
2006 | 2
2006 | 1
(16 rows)

Can anyone help me figure out why this is so?

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