From: David M. <dm...@ba...> - 2001-12-24 03:53:51
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I've just realized that I have a problem sorting search results, and it = seems like it would be a common problem. I've taken a look at the docs = and FAQs, but I didn't see any solution. I have two ht://Dig databases for two large sets of html files. One is = a mailing list archive (generated with MHonArc) that contanins 33,000+ = message files. The other is a collection of historical data in 670 = separate html files. =20 In both cases, searching by time is meaningless, since the timestamp of = the files has nothing to do with the date of the original message to the = mailing list, or to the date of the historical data. =20 Is there any way to change the way that ht://Dig determines the date for = a file that it's searching? In the case of the list archive, it would = be simple to write an external script to get the date from the message's = X-Date: header. I would expect that this might be widely useful. In = the case of my other application, I could also write a simple program to = extract a date from the html file. If there is a way to make ht://Dig find the file date in a different = way, that would be great. If not, I may have to write a utility to get = the message time and utime() the file's timestamp appropriately. My = other case could be more of a problem, since the historical files = contain data going back to 1757, which is a long time before 1970... Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks, Dave Melton |