extremely weird and frustrating...

[John Dixon]

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?