RE: [DUG]: sorting files

[Patrick Dunford]

TdateTime is a real type, and is the number of days from a certain point. Thus a simple numerical sort will do the job. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nello Sestini Sent: Friday, 9 February 2001 22:05 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: sorting files I didn't think it was that obvious - one could easily be tempted to write a complicated date sorting routine... I didn't think it was obvious either.   there was a Delphi version change a (long) while back where the date format changed - so that if you had apps from different versions passing binary dates around (a bad idea certainly) you COULDN'T just compare them as integers.   -ns