How to sort by Date with DataTables jquery plugin?

Question

I am using the datatables jquery plugin and want to sorty by dates.

I know they got a plugin but I can\'t find where to actually download it from

http://data

Answer 1

About update#1, there are 2 problems :

• Number of days = 1 (d/MM/YYYY) instead of (dd/MM/YYYY)
• Empty date

here is the solution to avoid these problems :

jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort['uk_date-asc'] = function (a, b) {
            var ukDatea = a.split('/');
            var ukDateb = b.split('/');

            //Date empty
             if (ukDatea[0] == "" || ukDateb[0] == "") return 1;

            //need to change Date (d/MM/YYYY) into Date (dd/MM/YYYY) 
            if(ukDatea[0]<10) ukDatea[0] = "0" + ukDatea[0]; 
            if(ukDateb[0]<10) ukDateb[0] = "0" + ukDateb[0];

            var x = (ukDatea[2] + ukDatea[1] + ukDatea[0]) * 1;
            var y = (ukDateb[2] + ukDateb[1] + ukDateb[0]) * 1;

            return ((x < y) ? -1 : ((x > y) ? 1 : 0));
        };

        //Sorting by Date 
        jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort['uk_date-desc'] = function (a, b) {
            var ukDatea = a.split('/');
            var ukDateb = b.split('/');

             //Date empty
             if (ukDatea[0] == "" || ukDateb[0] == "") return 1;

            //MANDATORY to change Date (d/MM/YYYY) into Date (dd/MM/YYYY) 
            if(ukDatea[0]<10) ukDatea[0] = "0" + ukDatea[0]; 
            if(ukDateb[0]<10) ukDateb[0] = "0" + ukDateb[0];

            var x = (ukDatea[2] + ukDatea[1] + ukDatea[0]) * 1;
            var y = (ukDateb[2] + ukDateb[1] + ukDateb[0]) * 1;

            return ((x < y) ? 1 : ((x > y) ? -1 : 0));
        };