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Dmitry Karamin
Dmitry Karamin
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Posted by Dmitry Karamin
Dmitry Karamin
10,099 Points

What is the right answer?

Entry.select().order_by(Entry.published.desc()) is't it a right answer?

=========== In the following query, I want to change the sorting of my records. How would I sort them based on their published attribute so I get the oldest first?

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Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Think about datetimes. The older a datetime is, the closer it is to the epoch (or even before the epoch, so it would be a negative number). So older dates and times are smaller than newer ones. Descending order puts smaller values last. So what direction would sort older dates and times first?

Dmitry Karamin
Dmitry Karamin
10,099 Points
Dmitry Karamin
Dmitry Karamin
10,099 Points

Thanks, i don't need desc or asc at all