Re: Sort files collection ?

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"Dr J R Stockton" <reply0945@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:28VN7Tsb8g8KFw32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript message <#F#E5xQXKHA.4688@TK2MSFT
NGP06.phx.gbl>, Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:05:48, Al Dunbar
<alandrub@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted:

"Dr J R Stockton" <reply0945@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript message <22f6f6d408818bb58f99a98c
2b24aa78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:36:45, tonyb
<guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted:

I know this is a bit off thread, as this is just in normal Windows
usage, but I use the current ISO date/time string (yy;MM;ddthh;mm;ss) as
a unique identifier, pasting it before the file name, for any files I
want to keep in the order I filed them or received them (usually work
related).

I do not see where ISO 8601:2004 allows either a two-digit year or a
semicolon as separator. While the first two digits of the year will not
change soon, they do serve to indicate that the field order is not MDY
of DMY, and is probably YMD.

Dr. J., I am surprised, and even a bit shocked, to see you being almost
an apologist for a practice that has no particular justification ;-)


Attribute it to a lack of understanding on your own part.

My apologies, however, it was more a lack of interpretation on my part than understanding. To me it's not the value of digits in the year that indicate the YMD order, but the fact that there are more than two of them, plus the fact that YDM is the least likely order possible.

/Al


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