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Asked: 2026-05-19T00:25:17+00:00

in my database , dates are stored in DD-mm-yyyy format , how can i

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in my database , dates are stored in DD-mm-yyyy format , how can i sort this to obtain the earliest date ? 

Cursor c = myDb.query(TABLE, new String[]{"dob"}, null, null, null, null, "dob");

I have selected it to order by dob field but its not ordered …
This is the output for the above query

01-03 17:14:51.595: VERBOSE/ORDER DOB(1431): 01-11-1977
01-03 17:14:51.595: VERBOSE/ORDER DOB(1431): 01-12-1988
01-03 17:14:51.614: VERBOSE/ORDER DOB(1431): 15-01-1977
01-03 17:14:51.656: VERBOSE/ORDER DOB(1431): 31-01-1988
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  1. Editorial Team

    In your case with sqlite and (afaik) it’s lack of a date type, I would store the dates in epoch value in UTC time (this is a good practise anyway since you’ll be timezone-independent) and then you can just sort by lowest value using ORDER BY.

    You can just convert back to a readable date in your Java application (use SimpleDateFormat for example)

    Date date = new Date(yourEpochValue);
SimpleDateFormat smf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
smf.setTimeZone(yourTimeZone);  
String dateString = smf.format(date);

    You’d go about storing the value the other way around (if this is something you need to do)

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