Question

I get from youtube JSON request (after a small parsing of the objects) these strings (which should represents datetime) :

2009-12-16T15:51:57.000Z
2010-11-04T10:01:15.000Z
2010-11-04T14:00:04.000Z
2010-11-04T11:12:36.000Z
2010-11-04T10:24:26.000Z
2010-11-04T12:05:58.000Z
2010-04-30T13:28:08.000Z
2010-11-17T13:57:27.000Z

In fact I need to order these list (descending), for taking the recent video published.
But how can I order those datetime? Is there a native method on JS?

Answer 1

You can just use a default sort method for this because the dates are perfectly formatted to do some sorting (year, month, day, hour, minute, second). This would be much more difficult if that was the other way around. Check out sort for example:

var unsortedArray = [ 
    "2009-12-16T15:51:57.000Z", 
    "2010-11-04T10:01:15.000Z", 
    "2010-11-04T14:00:04.000Z",
    "2010-11-04T11:12:36.000Z" ]; 

var sortedArray = unsortedArray.sort(); 

If you would like to reverse (descending) sorting, add .reverse() to the sorted array.