extremely weird and frustrating...

[larry at significantplanet.org]

Thanks John,
I'm not trying to be "cheeky" but I am frustrated.  Sorry Alex.

John, what you propose may work - haven't tried it yet.
However, that still does not explain why WITHOUT the 0 in front of it, 9:14 
was listed before 11:35 in my ascending sort. And just FYI, those are 
minutes and seconds I'm using and not hours and minutes.

My point is that it seems to me that the dateTime sort does not work 
properly.  What you proposed is a workaround because dateTime does NOT work 
properly, right?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Dixon" <dixonja at hotmail.co.uk>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 2:15 AM
Subject: RE: extremely weird and frustrating...


> Another way to do this would be to put a 0 in front of the 'hours & 
> minutes' before you sort them...
> Alex, it trying to help you... no need to be cheeky !...
>
> on mouseUp
>   set itemdel to ":"
>   repeat with count = 1 to the number of lines of fld 1
>      if the number of chars of item 1 of line count of fld 1 = 1 then
>         put 0 & line count of fld 1 into line count of fld 1
>      end if
>   end repeat
>   sort lines of fld 1
> end mouseUp
>
> would give :
>
> 01:22
> 02:08
> 07:47
> 09:14
> 11:35
> 12:16
> 15:56
> 16:33
> 25:34
> 34:55
>
>> From: 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.
>
>> > 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
>
>> >> 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:
>
>> >> 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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