How to sort datatables with date in descending order

Question

I wish to show the records using datatables with default ordering based on one of my rows with date & time in descending order. Please help me in editing the jquery stru

Answer 1

I had same problem. I used date-eu sorting plugin to sort dates in the format DD/MM/YY and I included the following JS file :

This worked for me.

$('#exemple').DataTable({
    "order": [[ 3, "desc" ]], //or asc 
    "columnDefs" : [{"targets":3, "type":"date-eu"}],
});

Read also this post on stackoverflow: Sorting date in datatable