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#1084 Sort order for Dates
BibDesk currently treats an Empty Date Added or Date Changed field for a bibliography item as newer than all other Added or Changed Dates.
As far as I can tell the records with an empty Date field should be _old_ records if they exist at all. Hence it would be better to sort them behind the oldest date to make sorting of publications more useful (e.g. with last added or modified entry at the very top of the list).
We can't treat empty dates other than any other fields, that really not worth it. IIRC, the empty values were ordered as larger so they would typically end up at the bottom of the table, as ascending sort order is the default. I don't consider this a bug (an RFE at best, but I already explained it's not worth special-casing).