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He should be able to sort the date strings without the need to create a Date object, as they can easily be made a sortable format.

Xotic750
– Xotic750

2014-02-24 06:59:26 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 6:59
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+1. Indeed if one would use sortable date-time format like ISO8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) code would be simple.

Alexei Levenkov
– Alexei Levenkov

2014-02-24 06:59:59 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 6:59
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@Xotic750 - DD-MM-YYYY is not sortable as text.

Alexei Levenkov
– Alexei Levenkov

2014-02-24 07:00:42 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 7:00
Master you deserve it +1

Deepak Ingole
– Deepak Ingole

2014-02-24 07:18:33 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 7:18
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@Xotic750 OK, updated the answer if there are no mixing of zero padded dates and non-zero padded dates.

xdazz
– xdazz

2014-02-24 08:23:25 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 8:23

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