Ultimate date sort null dates

DanTheMan

I've just implemented the moment.js ultimate date sort plugin, which is much easier to use than the old plugins and normally works very well. The problem is that I have a column which has null dates (last login) which so far have appeared as 'Never'.
The column will then be sorted as alphanumeric. The same occurs with a blank <td></td>. The only way I found to sort this out was by using a zero date which formats to 1-Jan-1970 (ok, but not Ideal).
So is there any way that a column can be forced to use date formatting, or that columns with valid dates can prioritize date type sorting over alpha?

DanTheMan

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allan

So is there any way that a column can be forced to use date formatting

You can set the columns.type option to the plug-in name created by the moment.js plug-in. However, a better solution will probably be to update the plug-in to accept null and empty data.

To that end, I've just updated the plug-in to support those options. You can grab the source from github there - I'll release it on the DataTables CDN in the next few weeks.

Regards,
Allan