[pmwiki-users] dates in pagelist

[Dominique Faure]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Sameer Kumar <skumar at eharch.com> wrote:
> On some pages, I have PTVs that are date stamps like (:featured:March 07,
> 2008, at 06:30 PM:).
>
> I am using these to create a list of "featured" pages similar to Wikipedia.
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> To list all the featured pages, I use the following pagelist directive:
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> (:pagelist $:featured=- order=-$:featured fmt=#featuredlist:)
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> The image below shows the list generated by the above. As you can see, the
> last entry, marked on April 29, 2008, is at the bottom of the list, even
> though it should be at second position.
>
> Any ideas why this would be so?
>

The sorting order being based on characters comparisons, "April" comes
sooner than "March" in the pagelist result. You should use timestamps
such as YYYYMMDDHHMM to get the expected result.


-- 
Dominique