Naming Folders

[DaleNrDudley]

Is it possible to give a folder a name that is recognised and sorted as a
date ie 02/04/06. I know that the forward slash / is not allowed but could
anything else be used to overcome this problem? Naming folders 020406
instead doesn't work of course because it is recognised as just a number.

I'm running XP sp2 ntfs

Dale

[philo]

"DaleNrDudley" > wrote in message
o.uk...
> Is it possible to give a folder a name that is recognised and sorted as a
> date ie 02/04/06. I know that the forward slash / is not allowed but
> could
> anything else be used to overcome this problem? Naming folders 020406
> instead doesn't work of course because it is recognised as just a number.
>


there are dozens of alternatives:

02_04_06

02.04.06

02-04-06 etc...

[DanS]

"philo" > wrote in
:

>
> "DaleNrDudley" > wrote in message
> o.uk...
>> Is it possible to give a folder a name that is recognised and sorted
>> as a date ie 02/04/06. I know that the forward slash / is not
>> allowed but could
>> anything else be used to overcome this problem? Naming folders 020406
>> instead doesn't work of course because it is recognised as just a
>> number.
>>
>
>
> there are dozens of alternatives:
>
> 02_04_06
>
> 02.04.06
>
> 02-04-06 etc...
>
>

And another alternative that will string-sort properly is yyyymmdd...

20060204 or
2006-02-04 etc.

[Mike Williams]

DaleNrDudley wrote:
> Is it possible to give a folder a name that is recognised and sorted as a
> date ie 02/04/06. I know that the forward slash / is not allowed but could
> anything else be used to overcome this problem? Naming folders 020406
> instead doesn't work of course because it is recognised as just a number.
>
> I'm running XP sp2 ntfs
>
> Dale
>
>

See response to the thread you started half an hour earlier.

[All Things Mopar]

Today DaleNrDudley commented courteously on the subject at
hand

> Is it possible to give a folder a name that is recognised
> and sorted as a date ie 02/04/06. I know that the forward
> slash / is not allowed but could anything else be used to
> overcome this problem? Naming folders 020406 instead
> doesn't work of course because it is recognised as just a
> number.
>
> I'm running XP sp2 ntfs
>
As I suggested in reply to your other post, try 2006-04-02.

--
ATM, aka Jerry

"Whether You Think You CAN Or CAN'T, You're Right." – Henry Ford

[philo]

>>
>> there are dozens of alternatives:
>>
>> 02_04_06
>>
>> 02.04.06
>>
>> 02-04-06 etc...
>>
>>
>
> And another alternative that will string-sort properly is yyyymmdd...
>
> 20060204 or
> 2006-02-04 etc.


yes...
that would be the better way to do things!