Krikor wrote: Hello Jeff, is this related to the other post?

Yes and I have been able to set up a hidden menu item for a specific author to set the sort order to date.

I still need a solution for a global setting of all searches by date.

I can provide a temp hack in the itemlist model. (components/com_k2/models/itemlist.php)

Line 351:should look like this:
This will set the default ordering to chronological ordering.

THANKS! That works.

You 're welcome Jeff :)