sorting by date senile?

xbury.cs at clearstream.com xbury.cs at clearstream.com
Wed Mar 9 11:04:00 EST 2005


Klaus,

Awesome! 

But this doesn't solve a problem with the conversion of dates to dateitems
prior to 1970s! I'll bugzilla that I think!

Shouldn't the centurycutoff be defaulted to 00? I would seem more 
logical...

regards,
Xavier

On 09.03.2005 17:00:56 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>>Try this one:
>>...
>>set the centurycutoff to "00"
>>sort lines of fld "dateIndex" datetime descending by item 1 of each
>>...
>>
>>Works here for me:
>>
>>01/06/1908     xyz...
>>01/09/1908
>>01/10/1908
>>01/10/1932
>>01/12/1998
>>01/12/1999
>>01/01/2000
>>01/05/2003
>>01/01/2004
>>
>>> Is this a bug?
>>
>>I am afraid this is a feature (of some sort...) ;-)
>
>Danke Klaus! Good going!
>
>Now im much less confused - but still scared of this feature!
>
>cheers
>Xavier
>
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