Sort date in table

Question

I want to convert string to date in Javascript. I need to do it because I have an array and create table from that. After that I want to use Tablesorter. But it sort it only like textfield. I trying to create new parser. I have string like:

"02 January 2010"

I need to create date type from that. Is it possible in Javascript? I tried

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMMM yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
Date date = format.parse(s);

But it doesnt work. How would I do that?

Answer 1

With a standard date format, you can create a date parser that doesn't need to reformat the date (demo)

$(function () {

    $.tablesorter.addParser({
        id: 'ddMMMMyyyy',
        is: function() {
            return false;
        },
        format: function(s) {
            var date = new Date(s);
            return date instanceof Date && isFinite(date) ? date.getTime() : s;
        },
        type: 'numeric'
    });

    $('table').tablesorter({
        headers : {
            5: { sorter: 'ddMMMMyyyy' }
        }
    });

});