Tablesorter, Wont Sort By Date Correctly

Does the tablesorter behave differently if there is whitespace about? I'm pretty new to tablesorter but I was asked quickly to add it to a customers site (specifically to allow the

Solution 1:

Got it working.. phew

$.tablesorter.addParser({
id: 'dayMonthYear',
is: function(s) {
    return false;
},
format: function(s) {       

    s = $.trim(s.replace(/\s+/g, ' '));


    var date = s.match(/^(\d{1,2})[ ](\w{3})[ ](\d{4})$/);
    var day = String(date[1]);
    if (day.length == 1) { day = "0" + day;}        
    var month = monthNames[date[2]];
    var year = date[3];

    return sortableDate = '' + year + month + day;
},
type: 'numeric'  
});
var monthNames = {};
monthNames["Jan"] = "01";
monthNames["Feb"] = "02";
monthNames["Mar"] = "03";
monthNames["Apr"] = "04";
monthNames["May"] = "05";
monthNames["Jun"] = "06";
monthNames["Jul"] = "07";
monthNames["Aug"] = "08";
monthNames["Sep"] = "09";
monthNames["Oct"] = "10";
monthNames["Nov"] = "11";
monthNames["Dec"] = "12";