Ordering formatted dates (Moment.js)

You might wish to tell DataTables about a specific date/time format that your data contains, but either you don't wish to transform it into a different format, or you aren't sure which columns the date/time data will be in (i.e. can't use the datetime rendering function). For such cases, we provide a DataTable.datetime() function to which you provide a format string. This will instruct DataTables to look for and parse data in such a format.

As with DataTable's other date and time methods, DataTable.datetime() supports both Moment.js and Luxon. In this example we are using Moment.js. For a full range of its formatting options, please see the Moment.js documentation. Note that the parsing is strict - your assigned format must exactly match the data.

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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

DataTable.datetime('D MMM YYYY');

$('#example').DataTable();

DataTable.datetime('D MMM YYYY');

new DataTable('#example');

In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:

The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:

This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:

The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:

This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.

The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.

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