javascript Date sorting(Urgent help needed)

[sanilsunny]

Consider I have an array with dates : {11.08.2010, 18.09.2010, 23.09.2010, 30.08.2010}

I need to sort this array so that all the dates in August come before September i.e correct date array. So the final array should look like this:

{11.08.2010, 30.08.2010, 18.09.2010, 23.09.2010}.

Can someone please send me the code to do this. It is really urgent and I need help in this issue.

Thanks in advance

[dogFang]

If you store dates in ISO 8601 format, it would make it much simpler.

var dates = [20100811, 20100918, 20100923, 20100830]; 
dates.sort();
alert(dates[0].toString().replace(/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/, "$3.$2.$1"));

[mrhoo]

// You need to test the year, year and month, or year, month and date of each item,
// sorting on the first difference found.
// parseInt is used for clients that think '08' is 10....

var days= ['11.08.2010','18.09.2010',
'23.09.2010','30.08.2010'];

days.sort(function(a, b){
	var aa= a.split('.'), bb= b.split('.');
	if(aa[2]!= bb[2]) return aa[2]-bb[2];
	if(aa[1]!= bb[1]){
           return parseInt(aa[1], 10)-parseInt(bb[1], 10);
        }
	return parseInt(aa[0], 10)-parseInt(bb[0], 10);
});


alert(days.join('\n'))

/* value:
11.08.2010
30.08.2010
18.09.2010
23.09.2010
*/