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Originally posted by CookieRevised
yeah... I think you're correct... Plus! could indeed retrieve the system's month and days names and other stuff like that to sort the folders.
But this wouldn't be easy though, as there are a lot of things to consider and people can name the files and folders whatever they want using the registry options. Moreover, the format of the names can change at any time since, again, people can change the registry options at any time too.
So you could have stuff like:
March 2007
2006 April
05/07/06 (and what is what in this format? Plus! couldn't have a clue, so how would this be sorted?)
2007-03
January (there is no year, so how would Plus! know where to place it?)
2006 (same problem as above, but this time with the month)
all in your logs directory....
So, although it might be possible, it still wouldn't be a true nice working way. And sorting it in a alphabetical way at least gives you a true consistant way of searching your folders.
There is a simple and easy answer to this problem.
Most programmers should be aware of the iso date format (8601).
This stores the date in the format of yyyy-mm-dd.
With this there will never be confusion over dd-mm or mm-dd because its in order of most significant to least significant. Plus its sortable in alphabetical order too.
