Yes. Sorry, I should have realized that a "natural sort" doesn't handle that (the negative sign distributes across to the minutes field but the "natural sort" is not aware of this).

Though you can still use a natural sort, you just have to process the leading sign separately. For example: 

my @deltas= qw(
    -6h0m -0h42m +0h18m -12h50m +11h39m
    0h2m +1h7m -12h8m -0h25m 0h0m );
@deltas= do {
    my( @sort, %sort )= map {
        local($_)= $_;
        my $sign=  s#^([-+]?)##  &&  $1;
        s#(\d+)# "\x80" ^ pack"N",$sign.$1 #ge;
        $_;
    } @deltas;
    @sort{@sort}= @deltas;
    @sort{ sort @sort };
};
print "@deltas\n";

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Though just for fun I switched from an index sort to a key sort so this version drops identical values. (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re2: Sorting strings ("natural sort" w/ negatives) by tye
in thread Sorting strings by rbi

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