[expert] Sorting order...1 10 2 20 3 30

[scrapmetaldevil]

Is it just me, or is this persistent via UNIX/Linux type systems? When listing
or sorting items by the command ls. kmail, or just about anything, numbers are
sorted by the first digit.

1
10
11
12
2
20
21
22

etc

This affects the dates on my e-mail...so come october when I use my regular
e-mail app kmail to sort the mail by date, which is what I prefer...all my
october-december messages will group with january...I missed this in the
documentation(of which I hav very little)...