To Pick the oldest file using shell script

Hi All,
I want to pick the oldest file among the below files in the shell program. I don't know the file name but i know the file extension.
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle    dba   0 Jul 10 13:39 1.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle   dba    0 Jul 10 13:39 2.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle   dba    0 Jul 10 13:39 3.sh
-rwxr--r-- 1 oracle   dba   7123 Apr 7 2011 xxampp.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba    1 Jul 10 12:57 xxaampps.sh
Here i want to create a shell program to pick the xxampp.sh which is created earlier.
Please help me to achieve this task.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Nikunj

oldest=`ls -t *.sh | tail -1`
echo $oldest

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