Question

I got a gridview which auto generates columns. One of the columns is a date field.
Somehow, i cant sort the date field. It’s being interpreted as a string.

The data comes out a database. The datatype there is set on datetime.

This is the code in the aspx file:

<asp:BoundField DataField="date" HeaderText="date" SortExpression="date" DataFormatString="{0:dd/MM/yyyy}" HtmlEncode="false"/>

What am i doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I realise this is a relatively old post but looking for a solution myself I figured this out.

If the Date is being populated as a string then you need to make sure it’s not. To do this create the data for the table as a DataTable and when adding in the data use:

dt.Columns.Add("DateTime", System.Type.GetType("System.DateTime"));

This sorts the Date column out just as you would like it.