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From: Linda Gaylord-Kuhn <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:20:18 -0600
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030102132413.02ffd560@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Lee Hoffman wrote:
> The best way to learn the sort sequence of dates is to make a number
of
> tags with the same date but using the different modifiers for all
except
> one tag. For example, three tag using the same date using before,
after
> and the exact date will be like this:
> Before 1 Jan 1800
> After 1 Jan 1800
> 1 Jan 1800
>
> The last two may look odd until you consider that 1 Jan 1800 had 24
hours
> in it and the last two entries _could_ be in the right order or
_could_ be
> reversed. Until and unless we find added information about the
"after"
> tag, we just have to realize that 'after' means one second after
midnight
> 31 Dec 1799. This is essentially the same as UFT but it just looks
> different.

Sorry, Lee, but UFT does *not* sort that way. I just ran a test and
they sorted in what to me is logical Order:

before 1 Jan 1800
1 Jan 1800
after 1 Jan 1800

In fairness, I ran the same test in TMG5 and the result was the exactly
the same for those three dates. Furthermore, I added two more tags to
the mix and got this:

UFT TMG
================== =================
before 1 Jan 1800 before 1800
before 1800 after 1800
1 Jan 1800 before 1 Jan 1800
after 1 Jan 1800 1 Jan 1800
after 1800 after 1 Jan 1800

IMHO, UFT is sorting correctly, treating the first two as identical sort
dates and had I entered "before 1800" first, it would have appeared
first in the list. Can't ask a program to decide which of two identical
sort dates should come first ... even *I* won't ask that. <VBG>

Linda


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