Lewin, at 20:45 on Aug 03 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Can't see that at all myself.  What's so special about YYYY-MM-DD that
BG> makes it any easier to sort than DD-MM-YYYY, or any other notation

LE> Suppose you were me. (I know, it's a scary thought).

True, no argument with that at all.  :)

LE> Suppose you had Norton Directory Sort in your machine.

Under OS/2 HPFS?  Pretty bloody unlikely.

LE> Suppose you didn't mind it bonking the brains out of your EAs.

EAs?  What are they?  :)

LE> You would save your 8.3-filename documents thus :

And what's an 8.3 filename?  Oh yeah, I vaguely remember DOS...

LE> xyymmddz.aaa

LE> x   = letter indicating doc type (F = fax, L = letter, P = pamphlet, etc..)
LE> yy  = year
LE> mm  = month
LE> dd  = day
LE> z   = additional letter to distinguish two docs written on same day.
LE> aaa = file format, as appended by the saving application

But these are files which you have created and named yourself, in which
case any convention could reasonably apply.

LE> Simple directory sort will give you a directory sorted into document 
LE> categories, and sub-sorted by CREATION (not modification) date, in 
LE> ascending or descending order, as the fancy moves you.

Of course, OS/2 does that anyway (after a fashion).  Good enough for me.

LE> Or maybe you're not a methodical person ? 

Quite right too, I'm a C of E (or at least I used to be).  :)

Regards, Bill
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