sort by Publication Date doesn't work -- sorts by str(date) instead

(I thought I reported this last winter, but this forum says I have no posts ...)

Running version 1.5.0.2, if I click the column header for "Publication Date" so that it will sort by date, what it actually does it sort by the str() representation of the date.  This means that, for example, "10/1/2008" precedes "9/1/2008", "9/10/2008" precedes "9/2/2008", and "2/1/2008" precedes "2/1/2007".  If I could change the date representation to ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-dd), this would be okay, but I don't see a way to do that.

Klossner,

Actually what HF should be doing is sorting based on the order the items were aquired in (the order in which they appear in the feed) as a proxy for date because so many different feeds don't implement the date correctly.  I have improved this for the next version with a much more hearty scheme for interpreting pubdate.  Thanks for the note and stay tuned.

Regards,

Will