Sorting date in datatable

Question

I\'m trying to sort dates in my datatable like DD/MM/YYYY (day, month, year) . I was following https://datatables.net/plug-ins/sorting/ .

but all the

Answer 1

Following Plasebo's example works, but in my case the MySQL DATE_FORMAT was sorting on month value, not entire date. My solution was to remove the DATE_FORMAT from my SQL statement.

$(document).ready(function() {
  $.fn.dataTable.moment('DD/MM/YY');
  $('.happyTable').DataTable({
        "ordering": true,
        "order": [[ 1, "desc" ]],
  });
});

DATE_FORMAT(date,'%m/%d/%Y')

"2003-12-30 00:00:00" results in "12/30/2003" but sorts on month value.