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Topic: Unhelpful sorting

Trying to find the upload dates of recent datasets I did the obvious - Browse datasets, sort on Upload date descending.  What do I find?  The dates are sorted alphabetically, not chronologically.

I am at a loss to know why this should be thought useful to anyone.  Please convert the text date to a numeric date format and sort on that.  Then it would be useful.

M.

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Re: Unhelpful sorting

The weird thing is when I look at the page on my phone browser (both opera and chrome) they are sorted in date order, but not on a computer.

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Teresa Frost | Wetland Bird Survey National Organiser | BTO
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Re: Unhelpful sorting

It does seem to be browser related, but in my Opera and IE the sort is alphanumeric, and in my Chrome it is chronological.

M.

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Re: Unhelpful sorting

Thanks Murdo

It seems to be browser specific working OK in Chrome but not in IE or Firefox. Have raised it as an issue to look into

Best wishes

Graham
NBN Technical Liaison Officer

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Re: Unhelpful sorting

This seems to have been sorted.  If so, it would be helpful to have some notification in the Forum.  Not just for this problem but for all of them, so that we know what has been fixed without us having to find out for ourselves.

M.