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

You can do your own comparator in order to keep the control of how is ordering the dates.

 jQuery.extend(jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort, {
            "ddMmYyyy-pre": function (a) {
                a = a.split('/');
                if (a.length < 2) return 0;
                return Date.parse(a[0] + '/' + a[1] + '/' + a[2]);
            },
            "ddMmYyyy-asc": function (a, b) {
                return ((a < b) ? -1 : ((a > b) ? 1 : 0));
            },
            "ddMmYyyy-desc": function (a, b) {
                return ((a < b) ? 1 : ((a > b) ? -1 : 0));
            }
        });

As you can see in the above comparator you can choose how to parse the date depending on your data.

And in the columns definition:

  "columnDefs": [
            {
                targets: [4], type: "ddMmYyyy"
            }]