Title: Dates
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Dates

 *  Resolved [mrspabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrspabs/)
 * (@mrspabs)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-5/)
 * How does TablePress handle dates? Is it possible to sort by dates for instance?
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-5/#post-3603760)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for the post!
 * TablePress doesn’t make any difference in the content of the table, everything
   is treated as text. The only difference is made in the frontend sorting, by the
   DataTables JS library. Dates in that are no problem. By default, the English 
   format mm/dd/yyyy is supported. The more European format dd.mm.yyyy can be added
   with the Sorting Plugins Extension from [http://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/](http://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/)
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  [allandoane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allandoane/)
 * (@allandoane)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-5/#post-3603900)
 * Quick question on top of this thread…
 * I want to enter the dates as mm/dd with no year. Will that be recognized as a
   valid date? And if so, will it get sorted appropriately?
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-5/#post-3603902)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question.
 * This will probably not be recognized as a date, but that shouldn’t matter in 
   this case. Sorting this data type as a string should result in the same/correct
   result.
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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