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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Sorting a column of inactive dates
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On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Hsiu-Khuern Tang wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a table where one column consists of inactive dates, such as  
> this:
>
>   | Date             | OK? |
>   |------------------+-----|
>   | [2009-01-30 Fri] | x   |
>   | [2009-01-27 Tue] | x   |
>   | [2009-01-28 Wed] | x   |
>
> I can't sort the table by that column.  If I change the dates to  
> active, then
> sorting (by time) works fine.  Is this behavior intentional?


Yes, intentional, because the same routine also does sorting of
entries and should prefer active time stamps.  However, I realize that
we can still look for an inactive time stamp when no active one can be
found.   I just pushed this change.

- Carsten