Sorting by dateTime

[Gregory Lypny]

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?

	Gregory