At 08:45 PM 12/1/2017, Richard Damon wrote: >Irregular dates have very defined rules for sorting, they sort strictly >alphabetically (I think based on ASCII codes) and all irregular date >sort before all regular dates. I didn't mean to imply "random" sorting, but merely that they likely did not follow what one might mentally think they sorted as... As you state, they sort before regular dates -- hence not "numerically" (which a YYYYMMDD sort would produce even for invalid DD values) -- [email protected] Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/