On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:50:01AM -0400, scrapmetaldevil wrote:
>
> 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)...
It's not a Unixism, it's a lazy programmer-ism. Unix has excellent
libraries for recognizing dates and sorting them sequentially. If kmail
does not take advantage of them, shame on the authors of kmail.
On the other tentacle, possibly the dates are mal-formed sothat kmail does
not recognize them or translate them correctly. In that case, you sender
is using a buggy MUA or thwere is a buggy MTA between the sender and you.
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