[mythtv-users] Incorrect sorting of UPNP 'Date' folder?

[David Hampton]

On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 17:35 +0000, Chris and Helen Bamford wrote:

> However, when I browse through the 'Recordings' folder structure
> to find the most recently-recorded items by entering the 'Date'
> folder, I do not see the entries sorted correctly by time. Rather,
> they are sorted alphanumerically by strings like 'Fri Dec 20 2016'
> and 'Fri Feb 21 2020' 
> - which is arbitrary and not a true date sort.  Obviously it makes 
> finding things difficult.

Agreed. Like you said, it should be sorting on the actual date not the
text representation of the date.

> This seems like a trivial problem, but it is in fact (for me anyway) 
> important as finding stuff by date/time is my primary usecase.

Its definitely a bug. Can you file a issue here: 

  https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues

Thanks.

David