dateTime

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Tue Jul 27 11:42:41 EDT 2004


At 15:05 27/07/2004 +0100, Alex Tweedly wrote:

>I'm having trouble with sorting things into date/time order.
>
>I thought
>>put "10 June 2004, 10 July 2003, 10 April 2004" into m
>>sort  items of m dateTime
>>put m
>
>should do what I want, (i.e. 10 July 2003, 10 April 2004, 10 June 
>2004),  but I get
>>10 June 2004, 10 July 2003, 10 April 2004
>
>If I omit the "dateTime" I get alphabetic sort - i.e.
>>  10 April 2004, 10 July 2003,10 June 2004
>as expected.
>
>Where am I going wrong ?

OK -  got it.
Need to have
   set the useSystemdate to true
and then it works.

I'm not 100% sure why - 10 June 2004 is pretty unambiguous, and doesn't 
change its meaning dependent on what my system date settings are, or on 
whether I use them or USA date interpretations.

But I now have a working script, so I'm relatively happy ...
-- Alex.

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