May I suggest:

SELECT date_format(date, '%d/%m/%Y') as mydate, title,
id, display FROM news ORDER BY date DESC

changing the alias of your formatted date to mydate, the raw value of
date is now available to order by.

- michael dykman


On 9/12/07, Ross Hulford <ross@aztechost.com> wrote:
> $result= mysql_query("SELECT date_format(date, '%d/%m/%Y') as date, title,
> id, display FROM news ORDER BY date DESC ");
>
> I have the query above the problem is oders them like so
>
> 30/05/2007
> 29/07/2007
> 25/0/2007
>
>
> The order is taken by the first number. Is there any way to order them
> properly without a timestamp?
>
>
> Ta,
>
> R.
>
>
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