Can the search sort events order so that you always get them in reverse chronological order?

[romedome]

In my years of Splunking I recall that you could not rely on events arriving in synchronous order 100% of the time. Rather, you will get them as the Search Head receives them based on how fast or slow the indexers are. This, in turn, means that you can't rely on first() or last() on giving you the earliest or latest value of a field. You'll only see this happen once in a blue moon, but it can happen. The problem is I can't find the original documentation that stated this issue.
My friend, on the other hand, says that the search head sorts events so that you always get them in reverse chronological order because he's never seen the opposite happen.

Who's right?

[kmaron]

according to Splunk Docs here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/SearchTutorial/Startsearching

By default, the events appear as a list that is ordered starting with the most recent event.

[romedome]

Right, but are there scenarios that cause the default ordering to break?

[kmaron]

This is old so it may not apply anymore but you might find it pertains

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/246691/search-head-not-consistently-ordering-results-from.html

[romedome]

Yes, his question pertains to mine. Wish I could find something official.
Thanks!