How to order years in select box

In the enterprise software I help build, we have a date-picker with years in a normal select element. I've gotten the question to revert the way the years are displayed so they are displayed from high to low.
So to scroll up to go forward in years and down to go backwards in years.

I'm going to advise against it, but the only arguments I can come up with are about the convention. Both Android and Apple have year selects that go from low to high.

The only arguments I can think of that would speak for reverting it to high to low, are that fact that "up" is more synonym with "going forward". And that social feeds are normally displayed with most recent posts at the top.

Could you, smart people, think of more reasons to do it one way or the other? I would like more arguments in my arsenal, before going to the product owners.