use-revolution Digest, Vol 29, Issue 32

[Gregory Lypny]

Thank you, Jacqueline.

Actually, both work on my home Mac, which suggests to me that  
Revolution did not pick up the changes to my system settings at  
work.  Perhaps I needed to quit the program and boot it back up again.

	Gregory

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006, at 5:41 PM, use-revolution- 
request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Message: 15
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:12:50 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> Subject: Re: Sorting by dateTime
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> Gregory Lypny wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> There's obviously something I don't understand about sorting.  I   
>> typed
>> this into the message box.
>>
>> set useSystemDate to true
>> set the itemDelimiter to tab
>> put \
>> 1 & tab & "01/10/1999 5:54 AM" & return & \
>> 2 & tab & "30/09/1999 9:16 PM" & return & \
>> 3 & tab & "15/08/1999 8:23 PM" into d
>> sort lines of d dateTime by second item in each
>> put d
>>
>> And I get this back.
>>
>> 2    30/09/1999 9:16 PM
>> 3    15/08/1999 8:23 PM
>> 1    01/10/1999 5:54 AM
>>
>> Revolution isn't treating the dates as strings; otherwise the order
>> would be 1, 3, and 2, which it is when I omit dateTime from the
>> direction of the sort.  I checked to make sure that my system date
>> format is dd/mm/yyyy and that the time uses a twelve-hour clock.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> Try this syntax:
>
>    sort lines of d dateTime by item 2 of each