An Old Man Needs Help

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Mar 14 11:52:14 PST 2007


Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:41:45 -0500):

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:08:41AM -0400, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> > I'm still using 4.8 and what we do is create a field that contains a
> > date derived from "12/31/50" - "the date being indexed".  The result
> > is a field with a descending index on a date field.  Just be sure to
> > update this field whenever the date is changed.
>
> And note that this depends on the setting of your PFCMARK.

Not really.  A sort on delta-T doesn't matter if it's relative to
1950 or 2050, as long as PFCMARK doesn't change.

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