Apparenly you are using TEXT column for date output (AddTextColumn) and it sorts alphabetically.
Instead use default date/time column or use AddColumn with formatDateTime Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "gmorlosky" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 4:17 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Date Sorting seems odd in Explore >I did confirm that when sorting on date (of any coloumn that > generates a date) of an Explore, that it is worng. > Descending sort looks like this: > 30-Jan-2009 > 25-Jan-2009 > 12-Jan-2009 > 04-Feb-2009 > 03-Feb-2009 > > To me it should start with the lastest Julian date and go backward. > > Any ideas ??? > > --- In [email protected], "gmorlosky" <gmorlo...@...> wrote: >> >> I have an explore of 6000 stocks. I descending sort on the default > Date >> column and oddly Jan 2009 dates come before Feb 2009 dates when in >> descending order, although 04 Feb comes before 03 Feb, which is > what I >> expect. How does the sort determine date values ? >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > **** IMPORTANT **** > This group is for the discussion between users only. > This is *NOT* technical support channel. > > ********************* > TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com > ********************* > > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG: > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/ > > For other support material please check also: > http://www.amibroker.com/support.html > > ********************************* > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
