From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-10-30T18:14:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting Array Of Dates

Chandu Chandu wrote:
> i have array
> 
> date = ['12/09/2007','06/06/2004','10/06/2005']
> 
> i wanted to sort dates in ascending order i.e
> ['06/06/2004','10/06/2005','12/09/2007']

Apart from the other solutions mentioned, you could also just use ISO 
dates instead:

date = ['2007-09-12','2004-06-06','2005-06-10']

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Calendar_dates

As well as sorting natively, this also has the advantage of being 
absolutely clear which part is the month and which is the day. (In your 
example, I can't tell whether you are using American middle-endian dates 
or not)

Regards,

Brian.
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