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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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          bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
   title="UNCONFIRMED - Sorting of date by ascending and descending is incorrect"
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116891">116891</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Sorting of date by ascending and descending is incorrect
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>LibreOffice
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>6.0.2.1 release
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>UNCONFIRMED
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Calc
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>NARAYANVENUGOPAL@HOTMAIL.COM
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        <pre>Description:
I have defined a column as date column. 
When i try to sort this out by ascending or descending,the dates don't sort ,
but the behavior is rather sorted as a numerical string. 
This should not occur and with little change in algorithm or forced behavior,
dates entered in the various date format should sort by Month Jan - Dec ( 1-12)
followed by Sort order of dates ( 1-31) , followed by sort order of Year ( in
YY or YYYY )

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create columns with various dates representing every month , few dates, few
years such as in attached list
2. Select sort area
3. Select sort by ascending and descending.

Actual Results:  
I ordered the dates by ascending. This is how it is sorted

1/13/17
1/26/17
1/26/17
1/26/17
1/27/17
1/28/17
1/3/17
1/3/17
1/5/17
1/9/17
10/18/16
10/19/16
10/20/16
10/24/16
10/25/16
10/27/16
11/17/17
11/19/16
11/22/16
11/23/16
11/25/16
11/25/16
11/9/16
12/10/16
12/13/16
12/14/16
12/18/17
12/19/16
12/2/16
12/20/16
12/20/16
12/21/16
12/23/16
12/24/16
12/26/16
12/26/16
12/27/16
12/28/16
12/28/16
12/29/16
12/3/16
12/3/16
2/15/17
2/7/17
3/3/17
3/30/17
3/30/17
3/31/17
3/31/17
4/28/17
4/3/17
5/5/17
8/12/16
8/12/16
8/16/16
8/17/16
8/18/16
8/20/16
8/22/16
8/23/16
8/23/16
8/23/16
8/24/16
8/24/16
8/24/16
8/24/16
8/25/16
8/25/16
8/26/16
8/26/16
8/26/16
8/26/16
8/3/16
8/30/16
8/30/16
8/31/16
8/8/16
9/12/16
9/13/16
9/14/16
9/14/16
9/16/16
9/16/16
9/16/16
9/19/16
9/25/17
9/26/16
9/26/16
9/27/17
9/28/16
9/29/16
9/3/16
9/6/16
9/7/16
9/9/16


Expected Results:
8/12/16
8/12/16
8/16/16
8/17/16
8/18/16
8/20/16
8/22/16
8/23/16
8/23/16
8/23/16
8/24/16
8/24/16
8/24/16
8/24/16
8/25/16
8/25/16
8/26/16
8/26/16
8/26/16
8/26/16
8/3/16
8/30/16
8/30/16
8/31/16
8/8/16
9/12/16
9/13/16
9/14/16
9/14/16
9/16/16
9/16/16
9/16/16
9/19/16
9/25/17
9/26/16
9/26/16
9/27/17
9/28/16
9/29/16
9/3/16
9/6/16
9/7/16
9/9/16
10/18/16
10/19/16
10/20/16
10/24/16
10/25/16
10/27/16
11/17/17
11/19/16
11/22/16
11/23/16
11/25/16
11/25/16
11/9/16
12/10/16
12/13/16
12/14/16
12/18/17
12/19/16
12/2/16
12/20/16
12/20/16
12/21/16
12/23/16
12/24/16
12/26/16
12/26/16
12/27/16
12/28/16
12/28/16
12/29/16
12/3/16
12/3/16
1/13/17
1/26/17
1/26/17
1/26/17
1/27/17
1/28/17
1/3/17
1/3/17
1/5/17
1/9/17
2/15/17
2/7/17
3/3/17
3/30/17
3/30/17
3/31/17
3/31/17
4/28/17
4/3/17
5/5/17



Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Sort algorithm  must order by by year , then sort by month ascending from 01 to
12 or Jan - Dec
then Sort by Date



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