Should have waited to send this, on further investigation, I found the
useSystemDate property, now all is well. Sorry for the noise!
> On 11Sep, 2022, at 8:29 PM, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> While playing around with the PolyGrid, I wanted to try adding sorting
> options by clicking the PolyGrid Header Labels. The solution I came up with
> drove me nuts until I discovered that there appears to be an issue associated
> with the sort command and dateTime.
>
> According to the dictionary, text can be sorted by dateTime, and the entry
> for dateTime states…
>
> "The dateTime keyword recognizes all LiveCode's date and time formats and
> sorts them in time order, rather than alphabetical or numeric order."
>
> Date Formats:
>
> the [{ long | abbreviated | short }] [{ english | system }] date
>
> …So I was expecting to be able to sort the PolyGrid by the dates as entered,
> because they are set to the same format as the system date on my Mac,
> however, sorting by dateTime fails (on my Mac) when the system is set to use
> dashes as date separators. e.g.: 11-09-2022, it works fine with any other
> format. e.g.: 11/09/2022
>
> I know that I can work around this fairly easily, but I see this as a bug.
> Before I report it, I figured it would be best to ask here if anyone else has
> come across this, or am I missing something? Seems like this should have been
> caught a long time ago.
>
> macOS Monterey
> Version 12.5.1
> LiveCode 9.6.8 & 10.0.0 (dp 4)
>
> Paul
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