sorting by date senile?

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

>Try this one:
>...
>set the centurycutoff to "00"
>sort lines of fld "dateIndex" datetime descending by item 1 of each
>...
>
>Works here for me:
>
>01/06/1908     xyz...
>01/09/1908
>01/10/1908
>01/10/1932
>01/12/1998
>01/12/1999
>01/01/2000
>01/05/2003
>01/01/2004
>
>> Is this a bug?
>
>I am afraid this is a feature (of some sort...) ;-)

Danke Klaus! Good going! 

Now im much less confused - but still scared of this feature! 

cheers
Xavier


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