diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7e570a17..90b253b8 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # NEWS
 
+v0.2.11
+-------
+## Bug fixes
+
+- Times in `DictWriter` are now correctly sorted.
+
 v0.2.10
 -------
 ## Bug fixes
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 3a9faec5..706cd1d3 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "ClimaDiagnostics"
 uuid = "1ecacbb8-0713-4841-9a07-eb5aa8a2d53f"
 authors = ["Gabriele Bozzola <gbozzola@caltech.edu>"]
-version = "0.2.10"
+version = "0.2.11"
 
 [deps]
 Accessors = "7d9f7c33-5ae7-4f3b-8dc6-eff91059b697"
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ ClimaComms = "3a4d1b5c-c61d-41fd-a00a-5873ba7a1b0d"
 ClimaCore = "d414da3d-4745-48bb-8d80-42e94e092884"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 NCDatasets = "85f8d34a-cbdd-5861-8df4-14fed0d494ab"
+OrderedCollections = "bac558e1-5e72-5ebc-8fee-abe8a469f55d"
 SciMLBase = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
 
 [compat]
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ Documenter = "1"
 ExplicitImports = "1.6"
 JuliaFormatter = "1"
 NCDatasets = "0.13.1, 0.14"
+OrderedCollections = "1"
 Profile = "1"
 ProfileCanvas = "0.1.6"
 SafeTestsets = "0.1"
diff --git a/src/dict_writer.jl b/src/dict_writer.jl
index 2ba1bcca..c774a92b 100644
--- a/src/dict_writer.jl
+++ b/src/dict_writer.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import OrderedCollections: OrderedDict
+
 """The `DictWriter` is a writer that does not write to disk, but to memory (in a
 dictionary).
 
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ function write_field!(writer::DictWriter, field, diagnostic, u, p, t)
     key_name =
         diagnostic isa ScheduledDiagnostic ? output_short_name(diagnostic) :
         diagnostic
-    diagnostic_dict = get!(writer.dict, key_name, Dict())
+    diagnostic_dict = get!(writer.dict, key_name, OrderedDict())
     diagnostic_dict[t] = copy(field)
     return nothing
 end
@@ -56,3 +58,7 @@ end
 function Base.getindex(writer::DictWriter, key)
     return Base.getindex(writer.dict, key)
 end
+
+function Base.keys(writer::DictWriter)
+    return keys(writer.dict)
+end
diff --git a/test/writers.jl b/test/writers.jl
index a9162922..5f59d547 100644
--- a/test/writers.jl
+++ b/test/writers.jl
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ output_dir = mktempdir(".")
     @test writer.dict["mytest"][2.0] == 20.0
     Writers.write_field!(writer, 50.0, "mytest2", nothing, nothing, 8.0)
     @test writer.dict["mytest2"][8.0] == 50.0
+
+    @test issorted(writer.dict["mytest"])
 end
 
 @testset "NetCDFWriter" begin