February 10, 2004 at 8:43 am
I just noticed that, in the virtual briefcase, it appears that my articles, etc. are sorted by the text representation of the date added, rather than by the date itself. My scripts, all of which I added in 2003, list the most recently added first, and the first added last. My articles do the same, except that my first article (the only one I added in 2003) shows up as if it were the most recent thing added. The dates in question are as follows:
09/26/2003
02/10/2004
02/10/2004
02/06/2004
01/14/2004
01/02/2004
Just wanted to point out the issue. Thanks for a great site!
R David Francis
February 13, 2004 at 8:00 am
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February 13, 2004 at 9:45 am
Thanks for the info. Is there something you'd like to see? Hopefully we'll get around to adding some sort options here over time.
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February 13, 2004 at 10:32 am
I'd expect to see the items sorted in actual date order. At present, if I had articles from January and February of 2003, I believe I'd see them as follows:
09/26/2003
02/15/2003
02/10/2004
02/10/2004
02/10/2003
02/06/2004
01/14/2004
01/10/2003
01/02/2004
which doesn't make much sense.
In other words, my concern is that there is currently a sort on this information that is, possibly, worse than useless. If you have any control over the date formatting used, then simply having the date in yyyy/mm/dd format would actually solve the problem, as long as the sorting continnued to be on the date as a character string.
R David Francis
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