Problem with sorting dates with jquery tablesorter

Question

I am using tablesorter plugin to sort my tables in an MVC .NET App. Most of my columns are strings and I\'m having no problems with them. Neither with the numeric ones. The thin

Answer 1

To be honest the simplest solution for me was, as compsmart said, adding some hidden text in front of the actual date.

• dateFormat: 'uk' was not working for me, maybe because my date format is again different
• http://tablesorter.openwerk.de/ involves modifying the CSS, first I don't understand why and second the effort is bigger than simple adding hidden text in front of the date.

I like the KISS solution from compsmart!