305696 - Sort by Date in Search Messages window leaves dates in scrambled order

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 276681

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Michael Malcolm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.6  (20050716)

After a search for messages, in this case with either of a pair of properties
(Subject contains, Body contains), clicking on Date appears to act, but leaves
messages in an order that is NOT by date.  

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search a large set of messages using more than one Match criterion (OR).
2. Click on Date, which should sort the resulting messages by date.
3. 

Actual Results:  
In most cases that I have tried, the result is not in Date order.  Example result:
Date
11/12/2001 10:42 AM
11/9/2002 10:25 PM
11/23/2002 3:03 PM
9/13/2002 11:43 AM
9/13/2002 3:23 PM
12/9/2000 11:23 PM
12/9/2000 11:57 PM
12/10/2000 12:20 AM
12/10/2000 12:20 AM
4/12/2001 3:02 PM
12/6/2004 9:51 AM
1/6/2005 3:28 PM

I will attach a screen capture of the Search window.


Expected Results:  
Messages should have been sorted by Date--by year, then month, then day, then
time, with AM and PM accounted for.

Comment 1

[Michael Malcolm]

Attachment: portion of screen capture showing Search window with Date sort problem

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 276681?

Comment 3

[Michael Malcolm]

Yes, apparently the same bug; I didn't find it when I searched for similar
problems.  However, you said you couldn't reproduce it, so you may think the
problem is resolved.  I wonder if the pair of criteria has something to do with
it.  My example does not have subdirectories, so it's not that.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 276681 ***