I think of 16:33 as sixteen hours and 33 minutes - LC won't interpret it
as minutes and seconds, and thus anything above 23:59 is invalid - and
therefore apparently interpreted as "0:00"
Unfortunately I can't find a definitive list of valid formats in the
docs, but nothing in the dictionary entry for 'convert' includes
mins:secs - it's always either hours:mins or hours:mins:secs, so I'm
fairly sure that's what's happening.
(You could use a sort by custom function to convert them all to
hours:min:secs , e.g.
sort field myTimes descending dateTime by hoursMinsSecs(each)
function hoursMinsSecs pTime
-- change a time in mins:secs to hours:mins:secs
set the itemDel to ":"
if the number of items in pTime = 2 then
return "0:" & pTime
end if
return pTime -- already is hours:mins:secs
end hoursMinsSecs
-- Alex.
On 02/04/2014 09:02, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
Sorry Alex, I do not understand.
16:33 is sixteen minutes and 33 seconds.
So why is 25:34 not twenty-five minutes and 34 seconds?
Last time I checked, there are 60 minutes in an hour.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Tweedly" <a...@tweedly.net>
To: <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: extremely weird and frustrating...
25:34 and 34:55 are not valid dateTimes, so where those lines get
sorted to is not well undefined; it looks as though LC simply decides
to give them a '0:00'.
Apart from those two lines, it looks (to me) like the result is
correct. Isn't it ?
-- Alex.
On 02/04/2014 08:41, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
Here is my script line:
sort field myTimes descending dateTime
And here is the result:
16:33
15:56
12:16
11:35
9:14
7:47
2:08
1:22
25:34
34:55
Here is my other script line:
sort field myTimes ascending dateTime
And here is the result for that:
25:34
34:55
1:22
2:08
7:47
9:14
11:35
12:16
15:56
16:33
Seriously?
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