| From: | Tim Seifert |
| Date: | 7 Sep 2001 at 11:22:30 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: Dopus Listers. |
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By: Ted Cotton <ted.cotton@xtra.co.nz>
To: dopus5@lss.com.au <dopus5@lss.com.au>
On: Friday, September 07, 2001, 7:19:23 AM
Re: [D5] Re: Dopus Listers.
Hi Ted,
TC> Back to my old system of sorting: A.January
TC> B.February
TC> C.March etc.
TC>
TC> I achieved what I'd asked for in Dopus and it worked 100%.
TC> Unfortunately, the thing I'd overlooked was that it would only work in
TC> Dopus Listers and whenever another programme called a requester my
TC> months were all sorted in alphabetical order again.
Ah!
Well, a common way to sort things into date order is to write the dates
numerically, most significant digits first.
e.g. 2001-12-25
That way, years, months and days are sorted in correct order (a hint about
what to do if you want to use the days, but have data that you don't
recall what day it really fell on - put a day 00). Use four digit years,
and double digits for everything else, so that you don't have 2000 issues,
or problems caused by single digit days and months.
Many programs will correctly sort numerical folder names, so long as you
stick to the rule of always using the same numbers of digits (pad single
digit dates with a leading zero).
Bye,
Tim. (Who's first job was working in a library, without computers.)
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