#4 Date sorting is numeric and should be "date order"

[Dan Lawrence]

When browsing the now showing list, I clicked on
the "date" header to sort the listing by date (which is the
most like the normal now showing list on the tivo). I
found it sorted numericly when it should have stayed in
a date order.

For example, it did this:
1/3/03
13/3/03
2/3/03

when it should have done:
1/3/03
2/3/03
13/3/03

A fix could be kludged by padding out the single digit
entirys with a zero. That way the come out proper in a
normal numeric sort. For Example:
01/03/03
02/03/03
13/03/03

Of course to be truely sorted properly it would need to
be year/month/day order.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Same problem with FSID which is treated as a string instead of a long integer. I have 5 and 6 digit FSIDs which do not sort correctly.

David

[Steven Adeff]

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bump, this is a rather annoying "bug"

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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This is called CHARACTER sorting... Not Numeric...
Numeric/Date sorting is what is needed. This happens
because to the computer 1 and 1 are alphabetically the same
thing. Padding it with zeros works because 0 comes before 1
in the computer alphabet.