Subject: Re: [Usher Talk] New property that's an actual date field?

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 09:21:34 -0800

On Dec 27, 2015, at 8:38 PM, Bob Smith <[email-masked]> wrote:

> as just plain text. Is there any way to make Usher treat the new field as a real date, and sort by it? Is changing all my data entry to something like 2015-12-27 the only way to make that happen? I'd rather not do that, because then I also need to add zeroes for the first 9 months of the year, and days (i.e. 2016-01-04), which is a pain, and also harder to read.

Tags are text fields; they have no concept of dates or numbers or anything else. (That is, they behave and sort just like filenames in Finder.) So yes, if you want the tags to sort in "date order," you'll need to name them YYYY-MM-DD, because that's how text fields sort numbers.

regards,
-rob.

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From: Bob Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:38:21 -0800 (PST)

I need to add a new field to the metadata that contains a date (this is not 
the Date Added, or the Creation Date). When I add a field and then fill it 
in with something like 12-27-2015, the field won't sort correctly as a 
date. Instead, it sorts all the Decembers from every year together, all the 
Novembers, etc. It's treating the new field as just plain text. Is there 
any way to make Usher treat the new field as a real date, and sort by it? 
Is changing all my data entry to something like 2015-12-27 the only way to 
make that happen? I'd rather not do that, because then I also need to add 
zeroes for the first 9 months of the year, and days (i.e. 2016-01-04), 
which is a pain, and also harder to read.

Any ideas?