sorting based on date and time in flex - sorting

Question

here i used the sort function for date and time,but it's only sort on date not time,i want sort based on both date and time:
private function dregdate_sortCompareFuction(itemA:Object, itemB:Object):int {
var dt1:Date = DateField.stringToDate(String(itemA.sbatchregdate),"DD/MM/YYYY");
var dt2:Date = DateField.stringToDate(String(itemB.sbatchregdate),"DD/MM/YYYY");
var dateA:Date = new Date(dt1);
var dateB:Date = new Date(dt2);
return ObjectUtil.dateCompare(dateA, dateB);}
kindly please share your knowledge.
thanks

Answer 1

As you can see by the format you're passing, DateField.stringToDate only cares about dates and not times.
You could use Date.parse if your input string was in one of these formats:
MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS TZD
HH:MM:SS TZD Day Mon/DD/
Mon DD YYYY HH:MM:SS
Day Mon DD HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY
Day DD Mon HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY
Mon/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS TZD
YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS TZD
but yours is not.
So give this, i'd use a Regular Expression to extract the individual values from the string and then build the Date object manually, something like:
var regex:RegExp = /^(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+) (\d+):(\d+)$/i;
var data:Object = regex.exec(itemA.sbatchregdate);
var dateA:Date = new Date(o[3], o[2]-1, o[1], o[4], o[5]);
once you have the two dates created with the proper time values, the comparison should work as expected.