If they choose to sort by deadline, doesn't the page run the query again, this
time sorting by date?  Your query will need to be dynamic.  You can do it with a
direct DBMS action.

Mike

Prasad Ramalingam wrote:

> The problem I have I fetch the values from the database with names,ids and
> there respective deadlines.so when I fetch the results the resultset will
> look something like this.
>
> Project Name :   Project ID : Deadline
> Prasad          100             Feb 05, 2003 03:10:00
> Gauthier                101             Apr 10, 2004 02:00:00
> Mike                    102             Apr 24, 2002 02:10:00
>
> so when a customer chose the project name it easily gets sorted through the
> <@SORT> tag .Simmilarly it happens for Project ID .But when I want to sort
> the deadline I am not able to do that because <@SORT> doesn't support dates
> and everyone know this point.
>
> The problem I face is I have to use the same array for all the sorting for
> either the Project Name or Project ID or Deadline.
> Because the customer can choose anything to sort with.I can't use separate
> arrays because I have to display all these values together within a table
> tag in HTML in the form of  rows at the same place.
>
> I hope I am clear enough.
>
> thanx in Advance.
> Prasad
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> For my case I only use seconds timestamp, so you can order it as any numeric
> column.
> Could you give us an example of what your date column look like?
> if you want to do the same thing from another date format look at
> <@TSTOSECS> (for processing date sorting) and <@SECSTOTS> (for display
> purpose)
>
> Gauthier
>
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