Fix for "UK Date" sorting plugin

PaoloValladolid

The plugin code works mostly fine off the bat . My respect goes to Andy McMaster for submitting it to the Datatables.net website.

However, it was putting 11/08/2005 before 09/13/2005 in ascending order, because the code was calculating a higher value for the latter date. Here is my fix, which is to multiply the month portion by 2 so that it is weighted higher:


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jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort['us_date-asc'] = function(a,b) {
var ukDatea = a.split('/');
var ukDateb = b.split('/');

var x = (ukDatea[2] + ukDatea[1] + ukDatea[0]*2) * 1;
var y = (ukDateb[2] + ukDateb[1] + ukDateb[0]*2) * 1;

return ((x < y) ? -1 : ((x > y) ? 1 : 0));
};

jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort['us_date-desc'] = function(a,b) {
var ukDatea = a.split('/');
var ukDateb = b.split('/');

var x = (ukDatea[2] + ukDatea[1] + ukDatea[0]*2) * 1;
var y = (ukDateb[2] + ukDateb[1] + ukDateb[0]*2) * 1;

return ((x < y) ? 1 : ((x > y) ? -1 : 0));
};
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