dates in descending order

Can anyone help me in writting javascript to display the list of dates in the descending order?

Can anyone help me in writting javascript to display the list of dates in the descending order?

can you explain yourself better? are these dates in a form? Are they in a array?

can you explain yourself better? are these dates in a form? Are they in a array?


I want to know how to write a javascript "to sort a set of date and time in the ascending order" that is i am having 5 to 6 date&time values from the external application in the format "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss" and i want to write a function to display them in the ascending order using jscript.
The dates are in a form.

Sounds like a homework asignment.
First you specifed descending, then ascending order. So which is it?

Have a look at the JavaScript sort() method.

var dates = [
"2002-05-11 05:12:43",
"1999-06-01 11:01:13",
"2003-02-24 10:10:33",
"2001-05-12 03:11:26"
]


var dates2=[];
for(var i=0, mx = dates.length; i<mx;i++){
var p = dates[i].split(/\D+/g);
dates2[i]= new Date(p[0],p[1],p[2],p[3],p[4],p[5]);
}


//ascending:
alert(dates2.sort(function(a,b){return a-b}).join("\n"))

//descending:
alert(dates2.sort(function(a,b){return b-a}).join("\n"))