Re: Sort order - Data midified / Created

Now I understand how you want your Date: values to display.

Try this: open your control panel from the start menu. Now click on "Clock, Language, and Region", Under "Regional and language Options" find and click on the sub heading "Change the date, time, or number format" On the Formats tab click the "Customize this format..." button. Now in this dialog box that opens, click the "Date" tab. Under "Date formats" there is a drop down menu that you click called "Short date:" it is here you can choose the format you would like to have your dates display in. You would choose yyyy-MM-dd. Now be sure to click the "Apply" button then the "OK" button.

To read the help and support file, open Help and Support from the start menu. In the help and support window at the top type in "change how dates are displayed. A list of the best 30 results for "change how dates are displayed" will show a list of links to the topic, the first one on the list should read "Change the display of dates, times, currency, and measurements. Click it to open the help file.

Back to Window Explorer, you can change or add many different heading in columns to view and sort the different properties that different apps will let you set when you fill in the fields in the properties *** for the file you have created and or add your own Custom properties (tags) if allowed depending on the application.
And those column properties that are appropriate for the file type extension.

By example, when you are in your Document folder, and say you sort the Date Created column this will sort every file and folder by Date and you can change the assenting or descending order. But you would have all the files and folder you have created over the years. There are many ways you can filter this information. I use the MM/dd/yyyy format, so in the the search box at the top of Windows Explorer I may type in it the following with out quotes "Date: > 12/31/2008" to only show the files and folders in Documents that I created since that date. Or I could have just clicked in the Date Created column on the little drop down arrow to the right that shows up when you are in the heading and choose "Stack by Date Created".

That being said there are many ways you can display the information about files and folders from within Windows Explorer from Stacking, filtering , grouping and using the search box at the top of Windows Explorer. You can find all information for doing this in your Help and Support files using keywords in the search box at the top or browsing the help files. You may prefer to use Natural Language Search if you don't know how to apply the syntax. Open control panel type "Folder options" in the dialog that opens under the search tab check the box next to use natural language search.

H Brown


"VistaXP" <VistaXP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6E013954-9B71-41C2-8445-B3457BFD772D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the reply.

I'm on Vista Home Premium.

I view "Details", and the "Date Modified" column is evidently a default,
because I never added it.

All I do is click on the column header and the sort happens, and the results
are just the way I described them: by MM first, then DD, then YYYY. It should
be by YYYY first, then by MM, then by DD.

The results I see are along the lines of the example in my original post.

"Field" refers to the area in the record used to control the sort, which in
this case is a date field. TYPE is the type of field, which is a DATE, not a
NUMBER or CURRENCY or TEXT or some other TYPE of data.

"H Brown" wrote:

What operating system and edition are you using?

It would also help if you would provide more of a step by step of what you
do after you open a folder so someone can try and reproduce your suspected
BUG.

((Example: ( I'm Using Windows (????) (edition) (Sp?). When I open the
Documents folder, set my view to (?). In heading column I add the headings
Date Created, Date Accessed and Date Modified properties. When trying to
sort files using these Date property columns by clicking in the heading
column for that date property I get the (following results abc...), but the
results I want and need are (cba...) etc, etc, etc.)

As it concerns Windows Explore, I am unclear what the meaning of your words
"by fields" and "by TYPE" when you said, as quoted below:

> Fields in a sort need to be handled by TYPE. Date fields are NOT the > same
> as
> numerical fields. When an ascending sort of "1/15/2007, 1/14/2009"
> produces
> the results of "1/14/2009, 1/15/2007", that is a BUG, and Microsoft > should

In Windows Explorer I'm thinking "Type" is a Property as in *file type* and
fields are where I input data values to some Property. Did you mean to say
filters instead of fields?


On my machine in Windows Explorer in the headings column of Date Created,
Date Accessed and Date Modified, I have no problems arranging a sort just
about any way you, I or someone else would like to see the values of their
file properties sorted.
Be it ascending or descending sorts, you still scroll down from top to
bottom to view the files in the order you sorted them to.

H Brown

"VistaXP" <VistaXP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:90FBD24A-18B2-49C7-B591-87C3E7315867@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> This has been asked in many ways in many places, but I've yet to see a
> solution to this... when using Windows Explorer to display folder
> contents,
> and to then sort the files displayed by date (created, accessed, or
> modified,
> the problem is the same), the files are sorted first by month, then by
> day,
> then by year. The result is that all "January" date appear first, then > all
> days within January, then all years for January dates, and THEN all
> February
> dates, etc. This is not how a sort by date is done.
>
> Any first year programming student knows that when sorting by date, the
> result HAS to be chronological. Why doesn't Microsoft know this?
>
> Fields in a sort need to be handled by TYPE. Date fields are NOT the > same
> as
> numerical fields. When an ascending sort of "1/15/2007, 1/14/2009"
> produces
> the results of "1/14/2009, 1/15/2007", that is a BUG, and Microsoft > should
> fix it.
>
> Is there, or is there not, a workaround for this?
>
> Thanks.



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