Sort day/month array in Javascript

Question

I\'m trying to sort an Array of dates from latest to oldest, and unfortunately list.sort (by default) only sorts the first number. My array looks like this:

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Answer 1

You would have to pass a sorting function to the sort method and define a date parsing function that creates an ordered representation of the date like so:

var MyArray = ["13 Jun", "09 Jun", "25 Aug", "30 Jun", "13 Aug"];
MyArray.sort(function (a, b) {
    a = parseDate(a);
    b = parseDate(b);
    if (a < b) {
            return 1;
    } else if (a > b) {
            return -1;
    } else {
            return 0;
    }
});