How Sort Array Date JavaScript dd/mm/yyyy?

Question

How would I sort an array of dates in chronological order? For example I have:

var dates = [
    \'03/03/2014\',
             


        

Answer 1

Try this (feel free to ask for details) :

dates.sort(function (a, b) {
    // '01/03/2014'.split('/')
    // gives ["01", "03", "2014"]
    a = a.split('/');
    b = b.split('/');
    return a[2] - b[2] || a[1] - b[1] || a[0] - b[0];
});

Translation of the last line :

return          return
a[2] - b[2]     years comparison if year A - year B is not 0
||              or
a[1] - b[1]     months comparison if month A - month B is not 0
||              or
a[0] - b[0];    days comparison

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/sort.