Spry European Date Sorting issue

Question

I've checked this with all versions of Spry, now with version
1.6 it still remains a issue, if you try to sort a column with
european format dates it's fail todo it properly. I've set the
datatype with ds1.setColumnType("fecha","date"); and does not work
still, the dates are in the format "dd/mm/yyyy".
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

"freequest" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Thanks for the reply Gunter, I've try this before and
the problem is not
> the
> format of separators, the problem is with the order ,the
format it
> understand
> is mmddyyyy,, so when you send any ddmmyyyy with
datatype character or
> number
> it doesn't sort properly because spry misunderstood the
date thinking the
> first
> two digits are a month, this is why if you try with a
range of rows with
> differents months it fail miserably. Spry at this moment
doesn't have
> international dates support.
The root of the issue is that using JavaScript to a string
into a date
easily lead to inconsistent, unexpected results.
The way I solved this in the past is to have two columns
inside my Spry
datasets. One stores the date in yyyy-mm-dd format (ISO 8901,
the format
typically used by databases), another one stores a nicely
formatted date
(whatever format the language dictated).
Then I always display the nicely formatted column, but I sort
it only the
yyyy-mm-dd one.
As a bonus, yyyy-mm-dd sorts okay just as a string, so I have
no need to
assign a different datatype to it.
Hope it may help.
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