Sorting by human readable dates

nickdavies791

Is there a way to sort a column by a human readable date?

I use Laravel, and use the Carbon date package with the diffForHumans() method to convert my dates to human readable format i.e. 3 days ago, 5 minutes ago etc.

Datatables seems to sort numerically and alphabetically.

Example: https://screenshots.firefox.com/IYm9uC74bz0HaKq8/asset-manager.ngrok.io

allan

This plug-in uses Moment for parsing date strings, which can parse that kind of information.

Although if you have the original unformatted date as well you should probably use orthogonal data.

Allan