From d96f9a8232c9bde51114f4560279926a76de1ad0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:52:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure that the order of the list returned by
 formats_modtimes is latest to earliest. Guarantees what is accidentally true
 today.

---
 src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py b/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
index 090c7c0298..964120f550 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
@@ -598,8 +598,9 @@ class BuiltinFormatsModtimes(BuiltinFormatterFunction):
 
     def evaluate(self, formatter, kwargs, mi, locals, fmt):
         fmt_data = mi.get('format_metadata', {})
+        data = sorted(fmt_data.items(), key=lambda x:x[1]['mtime'], reverse=True)
         return ','.join(k.upper()+':'+format_date(v['mtime'], fmt)
-                        for k,v in fmt_data.iteritems())
+                        for k,v in data)
 
 class BuiltinFormatsSizes(BuiltinFormatterFunction):
     name = 'formats_sizes'