Folder Names

[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.

Dale

 

[Gordon]

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.

Dale

You could use underscore, as in 02_04_06

 

[alanglloyd]

Name the folder with a date in the folder name in reverse order, and
with leading zeroes for each element. ie 060402. hyphens are as good as
any to separate the day, month & year - 06-04-02.

You then get folders presented in year, then month, then day order.

Alan Lloyd

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You could use underscore, as in 02_04_06

I think YY_MM_DD might be better, to ensure that
the years (e.g. 06) are kept together rather than
the days (e.g. 21).

 

[Gordon]

I think YY_MM_DD might be better, to ensure that
the years (e.g. 06) are kept together rather than
the days (e.g. 21).

True, O guru!

 

[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.

To get XP to sort the way I think is "correct", I put the full
year, month, and day together like this - "2006-04-02". This
method for naming folders, files, everything that I want to
include a date as part of has been very effective for me.

 

[Mike Williams]

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.

Dale

In what way do you want it to be recognised by XP as a date?

The common way to ensure sorting works is to use YYYYMMDD as the naming
convention

 

[DaleNrDudley]

Have tried it thx but it doesn't sort them any differently........

 

[DaleNrDudley]

Hi again.

I think that the format 2006-04-02 seems to work best for me, not just from
a sorting point of view but it is also easy to read. Thank you all for
helping me.

Dale

 

[PopS]

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.

Dale

020406 will work perfectly well for a folder or file name, so not
sure what you're asking here. Personally, I use the format
20060214 but you can add underscores, dashes, lots of things to
the name for separators. Reason I do it the way I showed is so
the dates will sort properly in the folders; most recent will
always be at the top and all in order below that.
Year/month/date works well for me, esp for backups.

Pop