Sorting directories by date

Describe the bug

I am not able to get pigallery2 to sort directories by date. Is there anything I am missing? It seems it’s using some weird sorting. Is it possible it’s some locale/dateformat mixup? Sorting directories by name works as expected.

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This is the top part of the list of directories in the gallery root:

$ ls --full-time --sort=time
total 784
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  4096 2021-11-23 19:27:32.000000000 +0100 2021_11
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  4096 2021-11-04 12:50:52.000000000 +0100 2021_10
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100 12288 2021-09-20 23:30:00.000000000 +0200 2021_09
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100 12288 2021-09-01 01:57:08.000000000 +0200 2021_08
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  4096 2021-09-01 00:04:55.000000000 +0200 canon_2021_08
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  4096 2021-09-01 00:01:51.000000000 +0200 canon_2021_07
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100 12288 2021-07-20 23:30:00.000000000 +0200 2021_07
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100   326 2021-07-11 23:49:27.000000000 +0200 canon_2020_08
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  4096 2021-07-11 23:46:43.000000000 +0200 canon_2020_09
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100   326 2021-07-11 23:45:08.000000000 +0200 canon_2020_11
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  4096 2021-07-11 23:44:17.000000000 +0200 canon_2020_12
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100   326 2021-07-11 23:43:03.000000000 +0200 canon_2021_01
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100   206 2021-07-11 23:41:58.000000000 +0200 canon_2021_02
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  8192 2021-07-11 23:39:48.000000000 +0200 canon_2021_06
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100 12288 2021-07-04 01:24:35.000000000 +0200 2021_06
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  8192 2021-05-31 19:25:19.000000000 +0200 2021_05
drwxrwsr-x 1 lknop 100  8192 2021-04-30 22:49:03.000000000 +0200 2021_04

When rendered by pigallery, this is the top of the list when sorted by “descending date”. I have enabled “sort directories by time” checkbox.

Environment: linux amd64 on docker

Used app version:

• docker-nightly

[hajo62]

i.e. google photo does something like that. You can sort albums based on date of included photos which makes the youngest album to appear as first in the list. The single albums can be sorted with oldes first (as default) which makes the photos appear in chronological manner.

Or with your .order_descending_name.pg2conf trick and your Default photo sorting method set to ascending date you can do this with your PiGallery. But you have to put that file into every folder which includes subfolders. Having that as a setting would be more handsome.

Am I alone find sorting like that - youngest albums first and within an album see the start of the photo series before the end - natural?

[bpatrik]

Sorry, but I find that confusing. If you show me a well known photo browser / gallery that has this feature, I will consider adding it.