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Question  posted by ssntosh on Oct 18, 2008 10:26
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date column sorting in grid

Hi
i want to do sorting for date column in grid.
i used mygrid.setColSorting("date");

but it didn't worked.
I used DD-MMM-YYYY as date format. Is it correct format to use ?

If not what is the correct date formate to use in order to enable the sorting on date colimn in the grid.


Answer posted by Support on Oct 20, 2008 02:10
>>If not what is the correct date formate to use in order to enable the sorting on date colimn in the grid.
Default data formating is mm/dd/yyyy ( or any other format which can be parsed by Date.parse )

If you need to use custom date format you can 

a) use dhxCalendar and setDateFormat command

b) use custom sorting functionality
         http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxGrid/doc/articles/Sorting_in_grid.html#grid_art_sort