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 can pass a function to sort to do custom sorting:

function sortDate (a,b) {
    var aa = a.split(' ');
    var bb = b.split(' ');
    var months = {
        Jan : 1,
        Feb : 2,
        Mar : 3 /* you do the rest ... */
    }

    if (months[a[1]] > months[b[1]]) return 1;
    if (months[a[1]] < months[b[1]]) return -1;

    return parseInt(a[0],10) - parseInt(b[0],10);
}

MyArray.sort(sortDate);