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From: jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Need Help with doing a "dateTime" sort
Message-ID: <1030@atux01.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 20:09:27 GMT
Organization: AT&T CSEd/CET, Piscataway, N.J.
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I have been trying for several days now to perform a sort of the date (and
time) in my HyperCard (HC) stack.

Although I can get it to sort the date of my cards properly, I can not seem
to get it to also sort those dates according to the proper time, whether in
ascending (default) or descending order.  For example, I sometimes get an
ascending sort showing card #1 as 3/20/89 at 5:39 PM before card #2 which
reads 3/20/89 at 5:22 PM!  (Please note the times.  In this example, the second
card should come FIRST.)  My sort code reads:

sort by dateTime word x of line x of bg field x

What am I doing wrong?  What should the script look like so that the date
is in ascending order, but is also ascending appropriately for the time values
also on the card field?


Thanks for your help.


						Jim Collymore