Hi David, on a computer I agree 20121221 is the way to go (but even then you could still do ls -lta), but on Eppendorf tubes that is precious real estate for other important numbers or letters hence the 12d21 :-)
And thanks for catching my double "J" this was just a test if somebody would actually read what I wrote :-) And the corrected values were indeed right, aka following the simple rule I mentioned. Jürgen On Dec 21, 2012, at 9:15 AM, David Schuller wrote: On neither case does an alphanumeric sort coincide with a chronological sort. The obvious solution is to petition to have the months renamed alphabetically. On 12/21/12 03:23, Tom Murray-Rust wrote: Hi Juergen, Your scheme as printed has two J's - so January and July are indistinguishable! I would suggest the letters should instead be JFMAYULGSOND. On 21 Dec 2012, at 01:52, "Bosch, Juergen" <jubo...@jhsph.edu<mailto:jubo...@jhsph.edu>> wrote: May I introduce you to another fool proof way: 12d12 ... J, F,M,A,Y,J,U,G,S,O,N,D for the months, simply first letter, but if taken move to the second letter etc. -- ======================================================================= All Things Serve the Beam ======================================================================= David J. Schuller modern man in a post-modern world MacCHESS, Cornell University schul...@cornell.edu<mailto:schul...@cornell.edu> ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Office: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-2926 http://lupo.jhsph.edu
