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Errata/Notes sorting

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Is there plans in the future for the ability to specify sort
order for errata or can it be done now?

For instance, for now, I have to use "yyyy/mm/dd" for the date
to get the errata/notes to sort correctly by date. I would rather
see it as "mm/dd/yyyy".

Guy Swartwood
 
I can understand your desire to display the date as "mm/dd/yyyy", because
that's what you're used to in the States. The problem is that folks in
Europe will want it displayed as "dd/mm/yyyy", since that's the standard
over there. To avoid confusion, I recommend that you use the format
"yyyy-mm-dd". This format is clear to everyone AND it's instantly sorted. :-)

I add this to the docs for the next Kit update. I should have added it
previously.

Thanks, Rob


At 08:46 AM 12/17/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>Is there plans in the future for the ability to specify sort
>order for errata or can it be done now?
>
>For instance, for now, I have to use "yyyy/mm/dd" for the date
>to get the errata/notes to sort correctly by date. I would rather
>see it as "mm/dd/yyyy".
>
>Guy Swartwood


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Rob Bowes (rob@wolflair.com) (559) 658-6995
Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com
 
Rob Bowes <rob@wolflair.com> writes:

> I can understand your desire to display the date as "mm/dd/yyyy", because
> that's what you're used to in the States. The problem is that folks in
> Europe will want it displayed as "dd/mm/yyyy", since that's the standard
> over there. To avoid confusion, I recommend that you use the format
> "yyyy-mm-dd". This format is clear to everyone AND it's instantly sorted. :-)

That's well and good for the source data, but shouldn't that be being read
into a SYSTEMTIME structure, then displayed using GetDateFormat to reformat
the date tag according to the selected locale (according to the Windows
Regional Settings)? Just a suggestion for a future release. :)

Sten

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