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Dates in their customary formats, if simply treated as alphanumeric text strings, sort in nonsensical ways: 1 September 1998 sorts alphanumerically before 5 March 1967, because 1 is less than 5;
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In computing, natural sort order (or natural sorting) is the ordering of strings in alphabetical order, except that multi-digit numbers are treated atomically, i.e., as if they were a single character. Natural sort order has been promoted as being more human-friendly ("natural") than machine-oriented, pure alphabetical sort order.
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Month-day-year or day-month-year. If a number for a day is missing, date sorting is broken. Abbreviated months work too. The year must be on the end, and a number can not be used for the month. Either will break date sorting. Date sorting works correctly in the first 2 tables below. Years before 100 (for example, year 99) break sorting.
• Date - Oldest on top. • Unread - Lists your unread emails on top. • Read - Lists your read emails on top. • Starred - Lists your starred emails on top. • Attachments - Lists your emails containing attachments on top. Sort options order may vary - They often won't show up in the same order based on the content in your folders.
For example, say that student records consisting of name and class section are sorted dynamically, first by name, then by class section. If a stable sorting algorithm is used in both cases, the sort-by-class-section operation will not change the name order; with an unstable sort, it could be that sorting by section shuffles the name order ...
Unfortunately, the ability to sort by "From," "Subject," or "Date" is no longer supported if you use the New/Old style of inbox. If you want to sort your messages this way, switch to the Unified Inbox style .