extremely weird and frustrating...

[larry at significantplanet.org]

Sorry Alex, I do not understand.

16:33 is sixteen minutes and 33 seconds.
So why is 25:34 not twenty-five minutes and 34 seconds?
Last time I checked, there are 60 minutes in an hour.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Tweedly" <alex at tweedly.net>
To: <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: extremely weird and frustrating...


> 25:34 and 34:55 are not valid dateTimes, so where those lines get sorted 
> to is not well undefined; it looks as though LC simply decides to give 
> them a '0:00'.
>
> Apart from those two lines, it looks (to me) like the result is correct. 
> Isn't it ?
>
> -- Alex.
>
>
> On 02/04/2014 08:41, larry at significantplanet.org wrote:
>> Here is my script line:
>> sort field myTimes descending dateTime
>>
>>
>> And here is the result:
>> 16:33
>>
>> 15:56
>>
>> 12:16
>>
>> 11:35
>>
>> 9:14
>>
>> 7:47
>>
>> 2:08
>>
>> 1:22
>>
>> 25:34
>>
>> 34:55
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is my other script line:
>>
>> sort field myTimes ascending dateTime
>>
>> And here is the result for that:
>>
>> 25:34
>>
>> 34:55
>>
>> 1:22
>>
>> 2:08
>>
>> 7:47
>>
>> 9:14
>>
>> 11:35
>>
>> 12:16
>>
>> 15:56
>>
>> 16:33
>>
>>
>>
>> Seriously?
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