I may be misunderstanding how you want it sorted, but if you keep the date format you have, you won't be able to sort how you (I think) want.

12-01-08
01-01-07
12-01-06
01-01-98

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will sort:

01-01-07
01-01-98
12-01-06
12-01-08

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It will sort all the January's first, then all the Februarys, etc... Result will be that January 1998, comes before December 2008, which is not what you want - I'm guessing. If you reverse order, you'd get all the December's first which would make December 2006 come before January 2007. Still not correct.

Have you tried using a different date format - or using Perl to convert the dates you have to a sortable format and then printing them back the way you want?

IMHO, the best way to sort dates would be: YYYYMMDD.

In reply to Re: Sorting by Date Help! by VinsWorldcom
in thread Sorting by Date Help! by Anonymous Monk

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