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From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Sorting by Date in HyperCard
Message-ID: <35201@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 89 23:00:48 GMT
References: <1102@orbit.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1102@orbit.UUCP> american@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jeff Iverson) writes:
>lih@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih) writes:
>>If I have a whole bunch of cards with a bkgd field that contains a
>>date in short format (6/9/89, for example), what is the best way to
>>sort this in chronological order?  Is there a way in HyperCard or has
>>anyone written an XCMD to do this?
>
>To do the sort, convert the contents of the field to seconds, then sort
>numeric by that field, when the sort is done, convert the field to short date
>which will give you all dates in the form xx/xx/xx with slashes instead of
>dashes.
>
> [sample script omitted]

Dan Winkler sent me a simpler way to do this and asked me to post it to the
net:

	sort dateTime by field "dateField"