sorting by date senile?

[Alex Tweedly]

Mark Waddingham wrote:

> dateItems can be used to sort, but you'd need to sort by each item in
>
>turn:
>  put <list of dateItems> into tList
>  repeat with n = 1 to 7
>    sort lines of tList ascending numeric by item n of each
>  end repeat
>
>(the stability of Transcript's sort means that this works fine)
>
>  
>
That should be

>  repeat with n = 7 down to 1   
>     sort lines of tList ascending numeric by item n of each
>  end repeat

otherwise you finish up with the final sort being by the least important 
item; you want to do from "most minor" to "most important" in order for 
the stable sort to help.

And  you can do from "6 down to 1", not "7 down to 1" - who cares what 
day of the week it is :-)

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