sorting by date senile?

Wouter wouter.abraham at scarlet.be
Wed Mar 9 11:18:11 EST 2005


Hi,

The centurycutoff  system works from 1902 up. If you have  earlier 
dates you will have to use another system.

The reason is dates are calculated with the seconds.

Gr W.

On 09 Mar 2005, at 17:04, xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

> Klaus,
>
> Awesome!
>
> But this doesn't solve a problem with the conversion of dates to 
> dateitems
> prior to 1970s! I'll bugzilla that I think!
>
> Shouldn't the centurycutoff be defaulted to 00? I would seem more
> logical...
>
> regards,
> Xavier
>
> On 09.03.2005 17:00:56 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>>> 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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