Thunderbird date sorting

[DrewEA]

It looks to me like the date sorting in Thunderbird is being sorted as a text string.
This is total lame. ALL dates should be converted to a sortable date type in the following format no matter how they are displayed to the user in the UI:
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
4 digit year forced 2 digit month and then the 2 digit day then the hour in the 24 hours format.

Only when using this format can dates be reliably sorted ascending or descending order.

ALL of the dates in the email objects, received, send or what ever should be stored in this format for sorting.

What I have seen is not usable in its current form.

If this is configurable in Thunderbird I have NOT found it.
(but this format should NOT be configurable for the purpose of the sorting logic because anything else makes NO sense)

[Jon]

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