[TYPO3-english] tt_news not sorting correctly - a bug?

[La Farge Douglas]

Since upgrading to 3.0.1 we've noticed that there is a problem with the sorting with tt_news. This happens in different installs (sites) of Typo3

In LIST mode I have:
order by: Date/Time
Ascending or Descending (LIST & LATEST):Descending

So what the above settings use to do is make it so new news article would appear at the top of the list/latest.

This isn't happening.

When I go in and create a news article (uncheck hide, give it a title, give it some body text, assign it a category, save), it ends up at the END of the list.

Even if I go in and change Descending to Ascending the ordering does not change.

I went to test the above settings in LATEST mode but ran into a problem (that I've seen before) where the page through links don't work (no matter what page I attempt to page through to LATEST mode displays the first 10 (out of 900) articles.  As an aside, is this also a bug? I see this behaviour with tt_news 2.5.2 on another site but for that site I just set all containers to LIST and forgot about the problem.

Did tt_news 3.0.1 change the date field it uses to sort?  In the past it used the Date/Time: field displayed in the flex-form for a news article record.

Sorting does seem to work correctly on the back end (If I change Date/Time: field for my latest (test) record it moves around in the BE.

This is a major problem for us. I'd consider downgrading but I don't believe that is easily possible since database records were changed with the upgrade (or is it easily possible?).

thanks in advance,
doug

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Doug La Farge
GCN Publishing, Inc.
Internet Design, Development and Consulting For Today's Media Companies
http://www.gcnpublishing.com
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