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From: Eric Haas <>
Subject: Re[2]: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:19:45 -0500
References: <000b01c2b293$ff76fd40$6eb52244@khnlic0umhcfd>
In-Reply-To: <000b01c2b293$ff76fd40$6eb52244@khnlic0umhcfd>


Thursday, January 2, 2003, 2:20:18 PM, you wrote:


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

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


I have to disagree with your assertion that "before 1800" and "before
1 Jan 1800" are identical. They differ in precision, "before 1 Jan
1800" is a much more precise specification than "before 1800".

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