Plugins/sorting/date-eu.js

/**
 * Similar to the Date (dd/mm/YY) data sorting plug-in, this plug-in offers 
 * additional  flexibility with support for spaces between the values and
 * either . or / notation for the separators.
 *
 *  @name Date (dd . mm[ . YYYY]) 
 *  @summary Sort dates in the format `dd/mm/YY[YY]` (with optional spaces)
 *  @author [Robert Sedovšek](http://galjot.si/)
 *
 *  @example
 *    $('#example').dataTable( {
 *       columnDefs: [
 *         { type: 'date-eu', targets: 0 }
 *       ]
 *    } );
 */

jQuery.extend( jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort, {
	"date-eu-pre": function ( date ) {
		date = date.replace(" ", "");
		var eu_date, year;

		if (date.indexOf('.') > 0) {
			/*date a, format dd.mn.(yyyy) ; (year is optional)*/
			eu_date = date.split('.');
		} else {
			/*date a, format dd/mn/(yyyy) ; (year is optional)*/
			eu_date = date.split('/');
		}

		/*year (optional)*/
		if (eu_date[2]) {
			year = eu_date[2];
		} else {
			year = 0;
		}

		/*month*/
		var month = eu_date[1];
		if (month.length == 1) {
			month = 0+month;
		}

		/*day*/
		var day = eu_date[0];
		if (day.length == 1) {
			day = 0+day;
		}

		return (year + month + day) * 1;
	},

	"date-eu-asc": function ( a, b ) {
		return ((a < b) ? -1 : ((a > b) ? 1 : 0));
	},

	"date-eu-desc": function ( a, b ) {
		return ((a < b) ? 1 : ((a > b) ? -1 : 0));
	}
} );